Nibir Mandal, born on 6 November 1963 at Jahangirpur in the Murshidabad district of the Indian state of West Bengal to Mahadev Mandal-Renuka couple, completed his graduate studies in science at Jadavpur University in 1984 and obtained a master's degree from the same university in 1987.[6] He continued at the university for his doctoral studies as a CSIR research fellow , and after securing a PhD in 1991, joined Allahabad University in 1992 as a lecturer but moved back to his alma mater as a lecturer the same year. He has been serving the university since then, holding the positions of a senior lecturer and reader before becoming a professor of the department of geology, a position he holds till date. In between, he did his post-doctoral studies at Hokkaido University as a JSPS visiting scientist and at ETH Zurich as a post-doctoral fellow. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the department of earth sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.[7]
Legacy
Mandal is known to have done researches on the evolution of geological structures.[2] Through his experimental and theoretical work, he is reported to have proposed a theory of particle motion associated with faults undergoing both translational and rotational movement. His studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles;[8][note 2]ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 74 of them.[9] Besides, he has also contributed chapters to books edited by others.[10][11][12]
Nishant Kumar, Shamik Sarkar, Nibir Mandal (2010). "Numerical modeling of flow patterns around subducting slabs in a viscoelastic medium and its implications in the lithospheric stress analysis". Journal of the Geological Society of India. 75 (1) (published January 2010): 98–109. Bibcode:2010JGSI...75...98K. doi:10.1007/s12594-010-0027-7. S2CID73619587.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Fernando O. Marques, Nibir Mandal, Rui Taborda, José V. Antunes, Santanu Bose (2014). "The behaviour of deformable and non-deformable inclusions in viscous flow". Earth-Science Reviews. 134 (published July 2014): 16–69. Bibcode:2014ESRv..134...16M. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.03.007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Ritabrata Dasgupta, Nibir Mandal (2022). "Role of double-subduction dynamics in the topographic evolution of the Sunda Plate". Geophys. J. Int. (published July 2022). 230 (1): 696-713. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac025