Alik Sundar Majumdar

About

Assistant Professor with 10+ years of professional experience (institutional plus R & D laboratories) in the field of Applied Geosciences through undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, field-based training program , and cutting- edge research in the Phyllosilicate Mineralogy and its application in the Earth system sciences, critical metal exploration, planetary exploration, and astrobiology, waste disposal, and societal benefits.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Assistant Professor
  2019 - Present
• Physical Research Laboratory INSPIRE Faculty
  2017 - 2019
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Post doctoral fellow
  2015 - 2017

Education

• Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Dr. rer. nat
  2011 - 2015
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay M. Sc. (Applied Geology)
  2008 - 2010
• University of Calcutta B. Sc. (Hons.) (Geology)
  2005 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Delving into Olivine - Clay replacement in Terrestrial Analog: Insights on Martian alteration process
  Goldschmidt 2025 Conference 2025
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• Petrogenesis of Mafic–Ultramafic Cumulates in the Mayudia Ophiolite Complex, NE Himalaya: Evidence of an Island Arc Root in Eastern Neo-Tethys
  Minerals 2025 DOI: 10.3390/min15060572
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• Spatial distribution, source apportionment, and health risks assessment of trace elements in pre- and post-monsoon soils in the coal-mining region of North Karanpura basin, India
  Science of The Total Environment 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177173
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• Role of fluid in strain softening within the Main Central thrust in Sikkim: The origin of quartz-rich mylonites
  Journal of Structural Geology 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104145
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• Serpentinization of olivine-gabbro in Central Indian ridge: Insights into H2 production during alteration in lower oceanic crust and sustenance of life at slow-spreading ridges
  Lithos 2020 DOI: 10.1016/J.LITHOS.2020.105730
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• Oxygen isotope analysis of olivine by ion microprobe: Matrix effects and applications to a serpentinised dunite
  Chemical Geology 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.09.020
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• High-resolution millennial and centennial scale Holocene monsoon variability in the Higher Central Himalayas
  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2018 DOI: 10.1016/J.PALAEO.2017.09.032
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• Formation of Mg-rich Olivine Pseudomorphs in Serpentinized Dunite from the Mesoarchean Nuasahi Massif, Eastern India: Insights into the Evolution of Fluid Composition at the Mineral-Fluid Interface
  Journal of Petrology 2016 DOI: 10.1093/PETROLOGY/EGV070
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• The role of reacting solution and temperature on compositional evolution during harzburgite alteration: Constraints from the Mesoarchean Nuasahi Massif (eastern India)
  Lithos 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.04.016
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• Raman-infrared (IR) spectroscopy study of natural cordierites from Kalahandi, Odisha
  Journal of the Geological Society of India 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s12594-015-0283-7
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