Prof. Mk Panigrahi

M. K. Panigrahi is a faculty in the Department of Geology &Geophysics at IIT Kharagpur. He is well known in the Indian earth science circle as an expert in Economic Geology and has contributed significantly to mineralization of copper, tin and gold in India. He has been teaching various courses in Economic Geology for the last 22 years. He has published many peer-reviewed journal papers and conference papers, guided 13 doctoral students, and 36 masters students. He is the recipient of the Young Scientist Project Award in 1993 from Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He was awarded with Prof. N. N. Chatterjee Medal by the Asiatic Society in 1993 for his conspicuously important contribution to Economic Geology. He is an awardee of Indian Society of Applied Geochemists Medal in 2012. Besides all these, Prof Panigrahi is one of the active persons in the field of Environmental Geology, also an enthusiast in Mineral Exploration and attempts to do mineral potential mapping using satellite digital image data and integration of various types of data on GIS. He instructs a course on Mineral Resources with Lab to the 3rd Year students of Applied Geology and Exploration Geophysics that he thoughts would be good to disseminate to a larger population of students.