I am a computational geoscientist doing my PhD. I investigate solid Earth and surface processes, using numerical models and geophysical datasets to understand how tectonics and landscapes interact and evolve.
The Earth we live in is fascinating to me. It changes accordingly to the posed constraints by nature and humans. Therefore, it is interesting and important to study its dynamics. I am interested in the geophysics part of geosciences and love the regions especially covered by snow and ice. Today, the communities living there face geohazards due to the direct impact of the warming temperature-melting ice-rising sea level regimes. However we are in a deglacial period right now that causes this melting and therefore, by studying the geology of the past, we can understand how past and future glaciations impact the landscapes. This is the motivation of my research at the intersection of tectonics, seismology, glaciology and geomorphology.
Models: ASPECT, GWB, OpenLEM, FESOM2
Datasets: Litho1.0 geophysical, Slab2.0 geodynamic, PANGEA Arctic oceanographic, GRACE satellite gravimetry, Sentinel satellite altimetry, GRDC river gauge, GNSS vertical displacement data, ERA5 reanalysis snow datasets, EOBS climate variables
Tools: Python, MATLAB, C++, Linux/MacOS
Personal:
Citizenship: India
Status: Married
Hobbies: Badminton, skiing, reading novels in winter,
Swimming, trekking, gardening in summer
University of Graz, Austria
Skills: Deep mantle geophysics, Tectonic basin formation, Seismicity, Geomorphological processes, Numerical modelling
Thesis: Numerical modelling of tectonic and surface processes at subduction-oblique strike-slip settings using ASPECT, Geodynamic World Builder and OpenLEM.
University of Bonn, Germany
Skills: Satellite Geodesy, Altimetry, Gravimetry, GNSS, Remote sensing
Thesis: Identifying temporal signatures of streamflow in snow datasets
Institute of Management and Technology, India
Skills: Entrepreneurship, Business strategy, Governance, Deep learning
Thesis: Using deep learning strategies to track and improve revenue growth.
Anna University Chennai, India
Skills: Signal processing, Satellite Communications
Thesis: Air pollution monitoring using Internet of Things and Machine learning
University of Graz, Austria
Role: Numerical modelling, Geodynamics, Tectonics, Geomorphology, Tutoring.
Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
Role: Climate dataset collection, curation, processing and analysis, interpolation schemes, Field work.
ForschungsZentrum Juelich, Germany
Role: Snow dataset processing, Scientific analysis, Visualization
University of Bonn, Germany
Role: GNSS data processing, spatio-temporal filtering, trend analysis, tutoring
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany
Role: Gravity field computation, corrections, Visualization
India
Role: Python programming, Scientific analysis, Algorithm development
University of Graz, Austria
Role: Tutoring bachelor students alongside doctoral research duties.
University of Bonn, Germany
Role: Tutoring master students alongside student research assistant duties.
University of Graz internal grant · 217000 EUR
Tools: ASPECT, Geodynamic World Builder, OpenLEM
Self-funded interdisciplinary passion project
Tools: Numerical modeling, Subglacial deformation, Seismicity
Alfred Wegener Institute internal grant · 51000 EURO
Tools: Python, Satellite ata analysis, Oceanography
ForschungsZentrum Juelich masters thesis internal grant · 9000 EUR
Tools: Python, Satellite data analysis, Hydrology
University of Bonn internal grant · 9500 EUR
Tools: Python, Data analysis
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Section 1.2 internal grant · 8000 EUR
Tools: Python, GRACE processing, Global gravity
Self-funded bachelor thesis · 500 EUR
Tools: Arduino, AWS Machine learning, Sensor signal processing
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