Visiting Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

Rishi Narain Singh

Department : Earth Sciences

rnsingh@iitgn.ac.in

Research Interests

● Geophysical and environmental modeling
● Geodynamics
● Inverse methods
● Mathematical modeling

Professional Summary

Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Dec 2015 to present)
INSA Senior Scientist, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (2010 – 2015)
CSIR Emeritus Scientist, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (2005 – 2010)
Scientist, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (2003 – 2005)
Director, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur (1999 – 2003)
Scientist-in-Charge, CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation, Benglauru (1996 – 1999)
Scientist, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (1973 – 1995)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Halifax; Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada (1970 – 1973)
JRF/SSA/Scientist, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (1964 – 1970)

Publications

1. Amiya Baruah, Alok K. Gupta, Nibir Mandal and R. N. Singh, 2013. Rapid ascent conditions of diamondbearing kimberlitic magmas, Findings from high pressure-temperature experiments and finite element modelling, Tectonophysics, 594, 13-26.
2. H. J. Purohit, D. V. Raje, A. Kapley, P. Padmanabham, and R. N. Singh, 2003 Genomic tools in environmental impact Assessment, Environmental Science and Technology, 37, 356A-363A.
3. P. Mandal, A. Manglik and R. N. Singh, 1997. Intraplate stress distributions induced by topography and crustal density inhomogeneities beneath the Killari, India, region, J. Geophys. Res. 102, 11,719-11,729.
4. A. Manglik and R. N. Singh, 1995. Postintrusive thermal evolution of continental crust: A moving boundary approach, J. Geophys. Res., 100(B9), 18031-18043.
5. J. Ganguly, R. N. Singh and D.V. Ramana, 1995. Thermal perturbation during charnockitization and granulite facies metamorphism in southern India, J. of Metamorphic Geology, 13, 419-430.