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Pulak Sengupta (born 1963) is an Indian
petrologist Petrology () is the branch of geology that studies rocks, their mineralogy, composition, texture, structure and the conditions under which they form. Petrology has three subdivisions: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary petrology. Igneous an ...
and a professor and former head of the Department of Geological Sciences of
Jadavpur University Jadavpur University ( abbr. JU) is a public state funded research university with its main campus located at Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established on 25 July in 1906 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into ...
. He is known for his studies on grain-scale reaction mechanism and ultra-high temperature regional scale metamorphism and his studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles;
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, online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 31 and 60 of them respectively. Besides, he has contributed chapters to many books published by others. He has also mentored doctoral scholars in their studies. Sengupta, born on 5 December 1963 in the Indian state of
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did his master's studies at Jadavpur University and subsequently secured a PhD from the same institution before joining his alma mater as a member of faculty. He is an elected fellow of
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, and the
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. The
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, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the
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, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 2006. Apart from academics his interests include photography and travelling.


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Deformation mechanism In geology and materials science, a deformation mechanism is a process occurring at a microscopic scale that is responsible for Deformation (physics), deformation: changes in a material's internal structure, shape and volume. The process involves p ...


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* Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences 1963 births 21st-century Indian geologists Jadavpur University alumni Academic staff of Jadavpur University Scientists from Kolkata Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Petrologists Living people 20th-century Indian earth scientists {{India-scientist-stub