Dr. Pratul Ranjan

Honors & Awards

• Recognized as Assistant Professor under Academy of Scientific Innovation and Research (AcSIR) in 2024.
• Awarded DST-INSPIRE faculty research grant by Department of Science and Technology, India in 2023. 
• Awarded European Union fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research in France for 2022-2023. 

• Awarded Taiwan International Graduate Program Fellowship to pursue PhD for three years. 

• Received scholarship from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan for continuing PhD. 

• Awarded INSPIRE fellowship for the duration of Integrated Master degree. 

• Earned International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics grant to attend quadrennial conference. 

• Finalist at Ocean Academic Plugin Design competition for Petrel by Schlumberger in 2014. 

Publications

• Ranjan, P., Stehly, L. Estimation of Seismic attenuation from Ambient Noise Coda Waves: Application to the Hellenic Subduction Zone, BSSA, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120230265 

• Ranjan, P., Konstantinou, K.I. High-resolution local earthquake tomography of the Aegean crust: Implications for active deformation, large earthquakes and arc volcanism. Tectonophysics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230331 

• Laurent Stehly; Estelle Delouche; Lisa Tomasetto; Pratul Ranjan. Dynamic of seismic noise sources in the Mediterranean Sea: implication for monitoring using noise correlations. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, Online first (2024), pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.241  

• Andinisari, R., Konstantinou, K. I., & Ranjan, P. (2021). Moment tensor inversion of microearthquakes along the Santorini-Amorgos zone: Tensile faulting and emerging volcanism in an extensional setting. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 107394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107394  

• Andinisari, R., Konstantinou, K. I., & Ranjan, P. (2021). Seismicity along the Santorini-Amorgos zone and its relationship with active tectonics and fluid distribution. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 106660. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106660  

• Konstantinou, K. I., Syahra, V., & Ranjan, P. (2021). Crustal anisotropy in the southern Aegean from shear wave splitting of local earthquakes. Journal of Geodynamics, 101810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2020.101810  

• Ranjan, P., Konstantinou, K. I. (2020). Mapping intrinsic and scattering attenuation in the southern Aegean crust using S wave envelope inversion and sensitivity kernels derived from perturbation theory. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB020821. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020821   

• Keshri, C.K., Mohanty, W.K. & Ranjan, P. (2020). Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for some parts of the Indo-Gangetic plains, India. Nat Hazards 103, 815–843. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04014-8   

• Andinisari, R., Konstantinou, K.I. & Ranjan, P. (2020). Seismotectonics of SE Aegean inferred from precise relative locations of shallow crustal earthquakes. J Seismol 24, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09881-8   

• Ranjan, P., Konstantinou, K. I., & Andinisari, R. (2019). Spatial distribution of random velocity Inhomogeneities in the southern Aegean from inversion of S wave peak delay times. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 10,393– 10,412. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017198  

Books

Research Scholars

Educational Qualification

Ph.D. Academia Sinica & National Central University, Taiwan

Proffessional Experience

June 2023- Present    Scientist  CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI)

Jan 2021 – May 2022   Postdoc  Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTerre), Grenoble Alps University, France   

Proffessional Affiliations

Life Memebership - Indian Geophysical Union (IGU)