Education
- Ph.D., Cambridge.
- M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
- B.Tech. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.
Ph.D Dissertation
Some awards and fellowships
- Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2020.
- Member, IUGG Commission on Planetary Sciences, 2015.
- Doornbos Memorial Prize (IUGG), 2014.
- SwarnaJayanti Fellowship (Government of India), 2011.
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship (Named), 2007-2009.
- CNRS Research fellowship, October 2001.
- Post-graduate prize awarded by the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers, UK, 2000.
- Junior Research Fellowship of Hughes Hall, Cambridge (1998-2000).
- Cambridge-Nehru and Chevening Scholarship.
- Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS) Award.
- National Merit Scholarship certificate (India).
Recent work
- The role of lower mantle heterogeneity in the early Earth dynamo
- Two-scale convection with rotation and magnetic field
- Vortex asymmetries in dipolar dynamos and their role in polarity reversals
- Helicity generation and subcritical behaviour in dipolar dynamos