Abhijit Mukherjee (earth scientist)

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Abhijit Mukherjee
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Abhijit Mukherjee
NationalityFlag of India.svg  India
Occupation Professor
Awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

Abhijit Mukherjee is an Indian professor, scientist and currently Professor of Geology and Geophysics and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of IIT Kharagpur. [1] He was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2020 in the field of Earth Atmosphere Ocean and Planetary Sciences. [2] [3]

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Early life

Mukherjee hails from Kolkata. He studied in South Point High School and Calcutta University. He went to United States for higher studies and post-doctoral research. Mukherjee worked in Canada for several years and after returning to India joined in IIT-Kharagpur. [4] He works there as an associate professor at the Department of Geology and Geophysics and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering. [5] [6]

Mukherjee completed B.Sc.(Hons) in Geology, from the Asutosh College, and his masters in University of Calcutta in 1999. He holds another master's degree from University of Kentucky in 2003. Later he completed his Ph.D from there. [7]

Career

Mukherjee is currently the associate professor of Indian Institute of Technology from March 2016. He is elected to Geological Society of America International Committee. [8]

Mukherjee in a Fieldwork on groundwater availability in Deserts Thar Desert groundwater availabilty.jpg
Mukherjee in a Fieldwork on groundwater availability in Deserts

He served as a Physical Hydrogeologist at Alberta Geological Survey, Energy Resources Conservation Board of Government of Alberta. He was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geoscience in 2006–2008 under the supervision of Prof. Bridget Scanlon. Mukherjee also holds a Professional Diploma in Software Engineering, from National Institute of Information Technology, in 2001. [9]

Research

Mukherjee's works was acknowledged, nationally and internationally. He researched on the subject of groundwater exploration for suitable and sustainable drinking water sources including Arsenic and other contaminants. His research group developed an AI prediction model for detecting groundwater Arsenic in the Ganges delta. [10] [11]

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Mukherjee receives National Geoscience Award in 2016

Mukherjee is regarded as one of the most well known hydrogeology in South Asia. He has done field-based and numerical research quality and quantity of groundwater-sourced drinking water availability across India have significantly contributed to the recent advancement of groundwater research in India. Mukherjee's recent research work have significantly contributed to support and evaluate the Government of India missions like MNREGA on groundwater rejuvenation in India. [12] Mukherjee's research work on geological and human influences on groundwater pollution (arsenic, pesticide, sanitation-sourced pollution) in the Indus-Ganga-Brahmaputra river basins has attracted wide national and international attention. [13] [14]

Awards and recognitions

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