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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Geoinformatics,Sedimentology,Soil Geography |
| Keywords | Himalaya, Ganga plains, Paleoclimate, Evaporites, Saline Lakes |
| Honours and awards | 2019: COFUND Senior Research Fellowship at Durham University 2018: Lalit Mohan Kapoor Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur 2016: Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad 2014: COFUND Senior Research Fellowship at Durham University 2014: Pandit Girish Ranjan and Sushma Rani Pathak Chair, IIT Kanpur 2008: Best paper award by the Indian Society of Remote sensing 2007: Centenary Visiting fellowship, St. Mary’s College, Durham University, UK 2006: S.S. Merh Award for contributions in Quaternary Geology, Geological Society of India 2002: National Mineral Award, Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India 2000: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for post-doctoral research in Germany |
Current contact address
| Country | India |
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| City | Kanpur |
| Institution | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur |
| Institute | Department of Earth Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Werner Smykatz-Kloss | Institut für Mineralogie und Geochemie, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe |
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| Prof. Dr. Bodo Bookhagen | Institut für Umweltwissenschaften und Geographie, Universität Potsdam, Golm |
| Prof. Dr. Rajiv Sinha | Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kanpur |
| Prof. Dr. Bodo Bookhagen | Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/02/2001 |
Programme(s)
| 2000 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2002 | Rajiv Sinham, Sanjoy Das, Onkar Dikshit: GIs-assisted mapping of catchment-scale erosion and sediment sources in Alaknanda valley. In: Annals of Geomorphology, 2002, 145-165 |
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| 2002 | Rajiv Sinha, Madhur Khanna, V. Jain, S. K. Tandon: Mega-goemorphology and sedimentation history in the Ganga-Yamuna Plains. In: Current Science, 2002, 562-566 |
| 2001 | P. D. Roy, Rajiv Sinha, W. Smykath-Kloss: Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Evaporitic Crust from the Hypersaline Sambhar Lake playa, Thar Desert, India. In: Chem. Erde, 2001, 241-253 |