Petrogenesis of terrestrial and martian igneous rocks
Formation and Evolution of the Moon
Formation of Magma ocean in planets
Formation of primitive crust-mantle and evolution
Planetary exploration
Educational Qualification
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. 2006
M.Tech. (Applied Geology), IIT - Kharagpur, India. 2001, First class
M. Sc. (Applied Geology), Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. 2000, First class
B.Sc. (Geology Hons.), Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. 1998, First class with Distinction
Employment details
Scientist at Physical Research Laboratory from June 2011 – present
Scientist-SE from July, 2014 Engaged in full time research on planetary sciences and teaching
Assistant Professor at Pondicherry University 2010 – 2011
Engaged in teaching (Petrology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Structural Geology) for B.Sc., M.Sc, and M.Tech students, and conducting research
Postdoctoral Fellow at ISEI, Okayama Univ. at Misasa, Japan (2008 – 2010)
Involved in full time research on Mantle Petrology – Geochemistry and Planetary Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow at Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee, USA (2007 – 2008)
Involved in full time research on Planetary Sciences and Mantle Petrology – Geochemistry
Research Associate, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, IIT Kharagpur, India (after PhD). A project was awarded by CSIR during 2006 – 2007
Scholarships and Achievements
GATE All India Rank 0019
CSIR NET Lecturership
M.Tech. Scholarship. IIT-Kharagpur
Institute Scholarship for pursuing Ph.D. IIT-Kharagpur
Research Associateship. CSIR
Post-Doctoral Fellowship. University of Tennessee, funded by NASA
Post-Doctoral Fellowship. ISEI, Okayama University, Japan
List of Publications
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Babu, E.V.S.S.K., and Vijaya Kumar, T. (2017). Chemical layering in the upper mantle of Mars: Evidence from olivine-hosted melt-inclusions in Tissint. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. v. 2, p. 251–267. doi/10.1111/maps.12790.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Babu, E.V.S.S.K., Vijaya Kumar, T. and Chennaoui Aoudjehane, H. (2016). Martian meteorite Tissint records unique petrogenesis among the depleted shergottites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, v. 51, p. 1588-1610.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Marhas, K. K., Sameer, Goswami, J. N. (2016). Water in the lunar interior. Current Science, v. 110, p. 1536-1539.
Goyal, S.K., Banerjee, D., Vadawale, S., Panda, D.K., Patel, A.R., Patinge, A., Ladiya, T. and Basu Sarbadhikari, A. (2016). Gamma Ray Spectrometer for future Mars mission: Design concept and Simulation study. Proc. of SPIE, 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 99056K, p. 13. doi:10.1117/12.2232425
Badi M., Basu Sarbadhikari A., and Patel C. (2015). Diffusion model for Fe-Mg in planetary materials: A mathematical approach. International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research, v. 2, p. 1554-1557.
Bhowmik, S.K., Wilde, S.A., Bhandari, A., and Basu Sarbadhikari, A. (2014). Zoned Monazite and Zircon as Monitors for the Thermal History of Granulite Terranes: An Example from the Central Indian Tectonic Zone. Journal of Petrology, v. 55, p. 585-621.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Goodrich, C. A., Liu Y., Day J. M. D., and Taylor L. A. (2011). Evidence for heterogeneous enriched shergottite mantle sources in Mars from olivine-hosted melt inclusions in Larkman Nunatak 06319. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 75, p. 6803–6820.
Karmakar, S., Bose, S., Basu Sarbadhikari, A. and Das, K. (2011). Evolution of granulite enclaves and associated gneisses from Purulia, Chhotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex, India: Evidence for 990-940 Ma tectonothermal event(s) at the eastern India cratonic fringe zone. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 41, no. 1, p. 69-88.
Isaacson, P.J., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Pieters, C.M., Klima, R.L., Hiroi, T., Liu, Y., and Taylor, L. A. (2011). The Lunar Rock and Mineral Characterization Consortium: Deconstruction and Integrated Mineralogical, Petrologic, and Spectroscopic Analyses of Mare Basalts. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, v. 46, no. 2, p. 228-251. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01148.x
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Day, J.M.D., Liu, Y., Rumble, D. III and Taylor, L. A. (2009). Petrogenesis of Olivine-Phyric Shergottite LAR 06319: Implications for Enriched Components in Martian Basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 73, no. 7, p. 2190-2214.
Liu, Y., Taylor, L.A., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Valley, J.W., et al., 2009. Metasomatic origin of diamonds in the world’s largest diamondiferous eclogite. Lithos, v. 112, p. 1014-1024.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A. and Bhowmik, S.K. (2008). Constraining the Metamorphic Evolution of a Cryptic Hot Mesoproterozoic Orogen in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone, Using P-T Pseudosection Modelling of Mafic Intrusions and Host Reworked Granulites. Precambrian Research, v. 162, no. 1-2, p. 128-149.
Bhowmik, S.K., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Spiering, B. and Raith, M.M. (2005). Mesoproterozoic Reworking of Palaeoproterozoic Ultrahigh Temperature Granulites in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone and its Implications. Journal of Petrology, v. 46, no. 6, p.1085-1119.
Mishra, B., Pal, N. and Basu Sarbadhikari, A. (2005). Fluid Inclusion Characteristics in Barren and Auriferous Quartz Veins in the Uti Gold Deposits, Hutti-Maski Greenstone Belt, Southern India. Ore Geology Reviews, v. 26, no. 1-2, p. 1-16.
Conference Abstracts (selected)
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Mahajan, R. R., Misquita, J., Sisodia, M. S., Shyam Prasad, M., and Bhandari, N. (2016). Lohawat Howardite: Carbonaceous Chondrite Impactors and Re-Equilibrated Components of Various Exposure Ages on Vesta. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society. Berlin Germany, Abstract # 6145.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Babu, E.V.S.S.K., and Vijaya Kumar, T. (2016). Olivine-Hosted Melt-Inclusions in Martian Meteorite Tissint. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston Texas, Abstract # 1836.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Mahajan, R. R., Sisodia, M. S., Babu, E.V.S.S.K., Vijaya Kumar, T., Shyam Prasad, M., and Bhandari, N. (2016). Multiple Stages of Early Evolution of Heterogeneous Type-7 Piplia Kalan Eucrite. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston Texas, Abstract # 1841.
Mahajan, R.R., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Sisodia, M.S., and Bhandari, N. (2016). Noble gases in Lohawat howardite. The Seventh symposium on polar science, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo Japan, Abstract: NIPR-2016-OA_Mahajan_00071_01.pdf.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A. 2015. Petrographical and Mineralogical Diversity between Fresh and Impact-Melted Domains of Olivine-Phyric Shergottite Tissint. In 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston Texas, Abstract # 1456.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Sisodia, M.S., and Bhandari, N. 2015. Geochemistry of Texturally Different Fractions of Piplia Kalan Eucrite and Lohawat Howardite. In 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston Texas, Abstract # 1464.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Marhas, K. K., Sameer and Goswami, J. N. 2013. Water Content in Melt Inclusions and Apatites in Low-Titanium Lunar Mare Basalt, 15555. In 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXXIV, Houston Texas, Abstract # 2813.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Marhas, K. K. and Goswami, J. N. 2012. Lunar Volatiles: OH, F and Cl in Apollo-15 Basalt 15555. In 75th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Australia. Abstract # 5252.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Tsujimori, T., Moriguti, T., Kunihiro, T., and Nakamura, E., 2010. In situ Geochemistry of Garnet Peridotites of Lashaine, Tanzania Craton: Re-fertilization in Sub-Cratonic Lithospheric Mantle. In Goldschmidt Conference 2010, Knoxville
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Goodrich, C.A., Liu, Y., and Taylor L. A., 2010. Melt Inclusions in Olivine-Phyric Shergottite LAR 06319: Important Considerations in Using Melt Inclusions to Retrieve Parent Magmas. In Lunar Planetary Science Conference XXXXI,1 Houston Texas, Abstract # 1369.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Day, J.M.D., Liu, Y., and Taylor, L.A., 2009. Olivine-Phyric Shergottite LAR 06319: Its relation to the enriched components in Martian basalts, In Lunar Planetary Science Conference XXXX, Houston Texas, Abstract # 1171.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Liu, Y., Day, J.M.D., and Taylor, L.A., 2009. Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions in Olivine-Phyric Shergottite LAR 06319, In Lunar Planetary Science Conference XXXX, Houston Texas, Abstract # 1173.
Hiroi T., Isaacson P.J., Klima R. L., Pieters C. M., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Liu Y., and Taylor L. A., 2009. Reproducing Visible and Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectra of Lunar Rocks Directly from Their End-Member Spectra: Importance of Ilmenite in Estimating the Lunar Surface Composition. In Lunar Planetary Science Conference, XXXX, Houston Texas, Abstract # 1723
Isaacson P. J., Pieters C. M., Klima R. L., Hiroi T., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Liu Y., and Taylor L. A., 2009. The Lunar Rock and Mineral Characterization Consortium (LRMCC): Integrated Analyses and Mineral End members from Mare Basalts. In Lunar Planetary Science Conference, XXXX, Houston Texas, Abstract # 1821.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Liu, Y., Taylor, L. A., Pieters, C. M., Isaacson, P. J. and Klima, R. L., 2008. Lunar rocks and minerals characterization consortium: mineral chemistry, and mineral separations for reflectance spectral analysis. In Lunar Planetary Science Conference XXXIX, Houston Texas, Abstract # 1290.
Liu, Y., Taylor, L. A., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Valley, J., et al. 2008. Diamond Genesis in the World’s Largest Diamondiferous Eclogite, Part II: In-situ Isotopes Study of Diamond and Mineral Inclusions. 9th International Kimberlite Conference Abstract # 9IKC-A-00188.
Liu, Y., Taylor, L. A., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Ketchum, R., Carlson, W., et al. 2008. Diamond Genesis in the World’s Largest Diamondiferous Eclogite, Part I: X-ray Tomography and Xenolith Dissection. 9th International Kimberlite Conference Abstract # 9IKC-A-00186.
Pieters, C. M., Isaacson, P. J., Klima, R. L., Hiroi, T., Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Liu, Y. & Taylor, L. A., 2008. Lunar Rock and Mineral Characterization Consortium (LRMCC): Links to Global Science and Exploration. In Lunar Planetary Science Conference XXXIX, Houston Texas, Abstract # 1900.
Bhowmik, S. K., Basu Sarbadhikari, A. and Wilde, S., 2006. 1.6 Ga Metamorphic Re-heating and Subsequent Compression of UHT Granulites from the Central Indian Tectonic Zone. International Conference with Program and Abstracts on the Granulites and Granulites, Brasilia, Brazil, 10-12 July 2006, Brown, M. and Piccoli, P. M. (eds), pp. 16.
