EDUCATION

1. 2002: PhD, Geology, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India.
   Title: Petrology and Geochemistry of Ophiolitic Rocks of Dibang Valley District, Arunachal Pradesh, North Eastern Himalaya.
2. 1994: MSc, Geology, University of Calcutta, India.
3. 1992: BSc, Geology (Honours), University of Calcutta, India.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Geology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Associate Professor (from June 2019).
Assistant Professor (December 2008 to June 2019).

CURRENT RESEARCH

Constraining shallow mantle environment and related processes in the formation of oceanic lithosphere: records from ophiolite study.

Origin of chromitites in various tectonic settings and their modifications (textural and mineralogical) in response to alteration/metamorphism/deformation.

Evolution of sub-continental lithospheric mantle by studying ultarmafic xenoliths hosted in alkali basalts.

Lower crustal architecture and nature of Moho transition zone in slow-spreading ridges. IODP 360 samples from Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge.

Kinematics of reaction microstructures, in particular symplectites.

PUBLICATIONS:

"Topics in Igneous Petrology" (editors: Ray J, Sen G and Ghosh B), 2011, Springer, 486p.

Nguyen D, Morishita T, Soda Y, Tamura A, Ghosh B, Harigane Y, France L, Liu C, NatlandJ, Sanfilippo A, MacLeod C, Blum P and Dick H (2018): Occurrence of Felsic Rocks in OceanicGabbros from IODP Hole 1473A: Implications for Evolved Melt Migration in the Lower OceanicCrust. Minerals, v.8, 1-31.

Abdullah S, Misra S and Ghosh B (2018): Melt-rock interaction and fractional crystallizationin the Moho transition Zone: Evidence from the cretaceous Naga Hills Ophiolite, North-EastIndia. Lithos, v.322, 197-211.

Morishita T, Yoshikawa M, Tamura A, Guotana J and Ghosh B (2018): Petrology ofPeridotites and Nd-Sr Isotopic Composition of Their Clinopyroxenes from the Middle AndamanOphiolite, India. Minerals, v.8, 1-16.