Anil Kumar Gupta (scientist)

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Anil Kumar Gupta
Anil Kumar Gupta, professor at IIT Kharagpur.
Born1960 (age 65–66)
Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India
EducationB.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D.
Alma materAligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University
Scientific career
FieldsGeology and Geophysics

Anil Kumar Gupta (born 1960) is an Indian geologist and academic. His research focuses on paleomonsoon dynamics, paleoclimatology, and paleoceanography, with an emphasis on reconstructing past variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon using micropaleontological and sedimentary proxies.

Gupta served as a Director of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology from 2010 to 2017 and was Head of the Department of Geology & Geophysics at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) from 2006 to 2009.

He was awarded the TWAS Prize in Earth Sciences in 2010 for his contributions to palaeoclimatology.

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