Petroleum Engineering & Earth Sciences Faculty

Atul Kumar Varma

Visiting Research Professor
Research Areas:
Coal Geology, Petroleum Geology, Organic petrology, Coal Conversion, Coalbed Methane, Shale gas, CO2 sequestration and source rock evaluation, Natural Hydrogen Exploration

Deepak Amban Mishra

Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Experimental Rock Mechanics,Engineering Properties of Rocks, Rock Failure Mechanism, Geothermal Resources

Ganesh Kumar

Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), Microfluidics, Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Rheology of Complex Fluids, Surfactants, Nanoparticles, Emulsions Drilling Fluids, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

Geetanjali Chauhan

Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
Petroleum Refining, Catalysis, Sustainable FuelsSynthesis and study of Fracturing/EOR/Drilling fluids, Reservoir Simulation and Modelling Digitization of Oil fields, Oil Spill Clean Up

Himangshu Kakati

Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Gas hydrate, Enhance Oil Recovery (EOR),Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Design,Drilling fluid for Unconventional Resources

Nilanjan Pal

Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
Product Synthesis & Process Design;Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS); Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) and Conformance Control; Reservoir Simulation and Modelling; Waste-to-energy (WtE); Biofuels

Prof Narender Pendkar

Visiting Research Professor
Research Areas:
Petroleum Geosciences, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology, Chemostratigraphy, Regional Geology and Basin Analyses, Diagenesis & Low Temperature Geochemistry, Geological Reservoir Characterization including for Basement Rocks, Analytical Methods (Petrography, XRD/SEM-EDAX, CL, XRF, Stable Isotopes), Core & Outcrop Logging, Sustainable Development, Energy Economics & Policy Analyses,

Prof Vijaya Kumar Kopparapu

Professor - Earth Sciences
Research Areas:
Geochemistry of Earth’s material,Geochemical Exploration of Uranium deposits, Tectonics, Supercontinent cycles and Crustal Evolution

Rajat Jain

Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Drilling fluid design and analysis, Enhanced Oil Recovery,Well stimulation techniques, Hydrocarbon Production Operations

Ranjan Pramanik

Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Hydraulic Fracturing and Computational Geomechanics; Reservoir Simulation; Fluid-rock-fracture interactions; Large deformation and failure modelling of Geomaterials; Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH); Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM); Peridynamics (PD);

Rishabh Tripathi

Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
CCUS: Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, EOR: Enhanced Oil Recovery, Reservoir Engineering

Roshan Kumar Singh

Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
Mineral Exploration, Geothermal Exploration, Resistivity imaging of Oceanic mantle, Lithospheric mapping of Continents, Petrophysical Characterization .

Shalivahan

Director & Professor
Research Areas:
Swarm Intelligence, Tectonics, Mineral Exploration, and Petrophysics

Sivasankar P

Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Numerical Modelling of Multiphase Flow and Reactive Transport in Porous Media, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), Physics Informed Machine Learning Geo-storage of CO2 and Hydrogen, Decarbonization & Energy Transition

Subham Bose

Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
Structural geology, tectonics, deformation mechanisms, strain analysis, microstructural studies, metamorphic petrology, and rheology. Focus areas include understanding litho-tectonic processes in ancient and modern mountain belts, fault and fracture reactivation, geothermal energy extraction, and geological hazard assessment using advanced techniques such as EBSD, CPO analysis, and strain modeling.