Sonal Khanolkar
Department : Earth Sciences
Research Interests
● Micropaleontology
● Biostratigraphy
● Paleobiology
Professional Summary
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar (July 2024 to present )
Post Doctoral Fellow, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel (Sep 2022 to July 2024)
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Tuebingen (Mar 2022 – Jul 2022)
Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Jan 2022 – Feb 2022)
Post Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Jul 2019 – Dec 2021)
Publications
1. Khanolkar, S*., Roy Choudhury, T., Saraswati, P. K., Banerjee, S. (2021) Late Palaeocene- Early Eocene Foraminiferal
assemblage and carbon isotope stratigraphy of Jaisalmer, western India. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. v. 51(1) pp. 4-13.
2. Khanolkar, S*., Schiebel, R., Singh, A., Saraswati, P.K., Jochum, K. P., Weis, U., Stoll, B., Haug, G. H. (2021) Intra-test
variations in trace element composition of Amphistegina lessonii using fs-LA-ICP-MS: A field study from Okinawa, Japan.
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009443.
3. Khanolkar, S* and Sharma, J. (2019). Record of early to middle Eocene paleoenvironmental changes from lignite mines,
western India. Journal of Micropaleontology. v. 38(1) pp.1-24.