Academic Background:

• PhD (Geography & Applied Geography, 2014): University of North Bengal.
• M.A (Geography & Applied Geography, 2006): University of North Bengal.
• B.A (Geography Honours, 2004): Darjeeling Government College.
  
  Professional Experience:
• Assistant Professor of Geography - University of Calcutta, since 02 nd November, 2015
• Assistant Professor of Geography - Mirik College: March - October, 2015.
• Assistant Professor of Geography - St. Joseph’s College: 2013-2015.
  
  Teaching and Research Areas:
• Fluvial Geomorphology
• Mountain River systems
• Socio- Hydrology and Socio-ecological systems in mountain environment.

Research Supervision:
Presently supervising 4 PhD students

Publications:

Socio-environmental issues of river bed material extraction in the Himalayan piedmont(India) - Łukasz Wiejaczka, Lakpa Tamang, Danuta Piróg, Paweł Prokop,Environmental Earth Sciences (2018) 77: 718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7897-1.

Local Residents' Perceptions of a Dam and Reservoir Project in the Teesta Basin,Darjeeling Himalayas, India - Łukasz Wiejaczka, Danuta Piróg, Lakpa Tamang,and Paweł Prokop, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2018 pp. 203-210, https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-16-00124.1.

Accessibility Conflicts and Disparities in the Urban Water Security of the DarjeelingTown in Eastern Himalayas, India – Ashish Chhetri and Lakpa Tamang, Proceedings ofthe 12th World Congress of RSAI (ISBN 978-989-54216-0-2), 2018, pp. 974-979.

lSediment Sorting and Distribution along Lower Balason river, Darjeeling District, WestBengal - Lakpa Tamang & Deepak Kr. Mandal, Geographical Review of India (ISSN0175-6331), Vol. 78, No. 2, 2016, pp. 119 - 132.