Dr Shamim Ahmad

About

In my role as a palaeobiologist, I study life during the Precambrian era. A large portion of my PhD work focused on ichnological studies, taphonomy studies, and paleoecological investigations of fossil assemblages reported from the Marwar Supergroup. As a post-doctoral researcher, I am examining Proterozoic sedimentary basins in India to discover traces of ancient life forms. Research on astrobiology is also part of my quest to explain how life survives under extreme conditions

Employment

• Indian Institute of Science Post Doctoral Research
  2022 - 2022

Education

• Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences Doctoral Degree

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (20)

• Reply to “Towards resolving the ‘jigsaw puzzle’ and age-fossil inconsistency within east Gondwana: A comment by Bickford & Basu (2020).”
  Precambrian Research 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105900
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• The early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) burrows from the Nagaur Sandstone, Marwar Supergroup, Rajasthan, India: palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological considerations
  Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 2021
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• Precambrian and early Cambrian palaeobiology of India: Quo Vadis
  Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s43538-021-00029-2
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• Glucose uptake rate of microorganisms living in hot springs above 70°C temperature: A study of Panamik and Puga hot springs in the Ladakh region, Jammu and Kashmir, India
  Current Science 2020 DOI: 10.18520/cs/v118/i4/644-648
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• Mo-Ni and organic carbon isotope signatures of the mid-late Mesoproterozoic oxygenation
  Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104201
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• Palaeoredox link with the late Neoproterozoic–early Cambrian Bilara carbonate deposition, Marwar Supergroup, India
  Carbonates and Evaporites 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s13146-020-00574-9
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• Towards resolving the ‘jigsaw puzzle’ and age-fossil inconsistency within East Gondwana
  Precambrian Research 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105775
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• Ladakh: Diverse, high-altitude extreme environments for off-earth analogue and astrobiology research
  International Journal of Astrobiology 2019 DOI: 10.1017/S1473550419000119
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• Note on the C and O stratigraphy of the garbyang formation (Malla Johar Area), Tethyan Himalaya, India
  Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 2019
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• On the ichnofossil treptichnus pedum: Inferences from the nagaur sandstone, marwar supergroup, India
  Bulletin of Geosciences 2018 DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1666
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