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Micropaleontology and
Paleoclimate Reconstruction Group
Dr. Sonal Khanolkar
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Research Interests
1. High resolution Biostratigraphy of Sedimentary Basins of India (Mesozoic and Cenozoic)
2. (Paleo)biology of Shallow Marine Foraminifera from Cenozoic, Western India
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3. Environmental Micropaleontology
4. International Ocean Discovery Program: Expedition 378: Foraminiferal micropaleontology and Paleoclimate Reconstruction
5. The response of various microfossils to Cenozoic climatic perturbations in India
6. Ecology of Recent larger benthic foraminifera
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2011-2016
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Ph.D
2008-2010
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Masters of Science (Applied Geology)
Work Experience
2017-2020
DST-Inspire Faculty
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2019-2021
Post-Doc
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz
Germany
March 2022- June 2022
Research@ Tuebingen Fellow
University of Tuebingen, Germany
Sept 2022- July 2024
Post-Doc
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
When I am not on field or in the lab, I usually improve on my painting and photography skills. I have been working on oil paintings recently! Foraminifera-art is another domain to work upon in the future ;). Keep visiting this space for more of my artistic escapades.
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