Prantik Mondal

A detail-oriented and motivated geoscientist with a strong background in carbonate sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir geochemistry. Eager to apply technical expertise to hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir characterization. Seeking to contribute to data-driven subsurface interpretation and field development in the oil and gas industry.

2023-2024: Awarded Post-Graduate Research Grant worth 935 Euros, by the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS, 2023), research project entitled 'Reconstructing Transitional Paleoredox Conditions between OAE 2 and OAE 3 (Turonian-Coniacian) through Stable Isotopes and TOC: A Study of an Intracratonic Epeiric Platform in the Bagh Group, Narmada Rift Basin, Central India.'

2023-2025: Awarded Senior Research Fellow (SRF) fellowship (for 1.5 years) under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) fellowship scheme, Government of India, New Delhi.

2019-2023: Awarded Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and Senior Research Fellow (SRF) fellowships, for (2 + 1.5) years, under project 'Sequence stratigraphy of Bagh Group of rocks, Narmada rift valley, Central India: its bearing on the Late Cretaceous paleogeography', sponsored by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), New Delhi, India.

2019-2020: Qualified for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Examination in 2019 and 2020.

2019: Passed Post-Graduation in M.Sc. Geology with distinction

2023: Participated in the '9th IAS International Summer School of Sedimentology 2023', 8th-15th October, 2023. Understanding facies and sequence architecture from continuous carbonate outcrops (Sierra de Albarracín-Aliaga, Teruel province, Spain).

2022: Completed self-place training course MATLAB Onramp, MathWorks Training services.

2019: Reliance Petroleum Industries, Workshop on 'Structural Geological Seismic Interpretation' at Department of Geology, Center for Advanced Studies, Banaras Hindu University.

2019: Reliance Petroleum Industries, Workshop on 'Decision Analysis in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production' at Department of Geology, Center for Advanced Studies, Banaras Hindu University.

2025: Saha A, and Mondal P, 2025, Sedimentological and ichnological controls on mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments of the Middle Jurassic Bada Bag Member, Jaisalmer Formation, Rajasthan, India; Journal of Earth System Science (accepted, in press) DOI: 10.1007/s12040-025-02627-w

2025: Mondal P, Das A, Bhattacharya B, and Halder K, 2025, Palaeoenvironmental implications of a turritelline-dominated assemblage (TDA) from Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks of the Narmada Basin, India; Palaeoworld, 34 (1), 100855. DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2024.06.003

2024: Bhattacharya B, and Mondal P, 2024, Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Cretaceous deposits of Narmada Valley, central India; Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 1-10. DOI: 10.1007/s43538-024-00268-z.

2021: Bhattacharya B, Halder K, Jha S, Mondal P, and Ray R 2021, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology of Late Cretaceous Bagh Beds, Narmada Valley, Central India: A Review; In book: Mesozoic Stratigraphy of India, A Multi-Proxy Approach, 623-657. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71370-6_21.

2020: Bhattacharya B, Jha S, and Mondal P, 2020, Palaeogeographic reconstruction of a fluvio-marine transitional system in the Narmada rift basin, India - Implications on Late Cretaceous global sea-level rise; Journal of Palaeogeography, 9, 30. DOI: 10.1186/s42501-020-00078-6.

2023 Awarded the Post-Graduate Research Grant worth 935 Euros by the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
2023 IAS travel grant for the 9th International Summer School on sedimentology, Spain.
2023 DORA grant for the 36th IMS, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2023 IAS travel grant for 36th IMS, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
2022-2023 Second prize in Best Poster Presentation, Research Scholars Day, ESD, IITR.
2021-2023 DRC, Student's Representative, Department of Earth Sciences, IITR
2019 Distinction in M.Sc. Geology, BHU, India.
2018-2019 Vice President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), BHU, Student Chapter, BHU Varanasi.

International Conferences

Mondal, P., Bhattacharya, B., Halder, K., Carbonate Brecciation within the Late Cretaceous, Bagh Group, Central India: Implications to paleoenvironmental and genetical reconstruction. Presented at the 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology (IMS), Dubrovnik, Croatia(June 2023).

Mondal, P., Halder, K., and Bhattacharya, B., Significance of turritella dominated assemblage (TDA) within mid-Cretaceous carbonates of Bagh Group, central India: Evidence of sedimentological non-uniformitarianism. Presented at the 21st International Sedimentological Congress (ISC), Beijing, China (August 2022).

National Conferences

Mondal, P., and Bhattacharya, B., Hydrothermally brecciated carbonate rocks within Late Cretaceous Bagh Group, Central India: Implications on genesis and paleoenvironment. Presented at the ESICET, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India (December 2023).

Mondal, P., and Shukla, U., Sedimentological and petrographical attributes of a mixed siliciclastic-shoal carbonate, embayment system: A coupled approach on rocks of mid-Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian) Chari Formation, Kutch Basin, Western India. Presented at the 38th convention of Indian association of Sedimentologists (IAS), University of Delhi, New Delhi, India (December 2022).