Surface Environments and Human Interactions

Dr. Rajat Mazumder received his M. Sc in Applied Geology in 1991 from the University of Allahabad, (India) and his Ph. D from Jadavpur University (India) in 2002. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at Yokohama National University (2002-2004), Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation (2005-2006) at Munich University, Germany, and was a recipient of JSPS short-term invitation fellowship for experienced researchers in 2008. Dr. Mazumder taught Sedimentary Petrology, Mineralogy, and Precambrian Stratigraphy at Asutosh College (University of Calcutta, 1999-2002), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (2006), and was an Associate Professor of Geology at the Indian Statistical Institute (2006-2013). He was a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales Australia (2012-2014) and an Associate Professor at Curtin University, Malaysia (2015-2018). Currently, Dr. Mazumder is an Associate Professor at the German University of Technology in Oman.Dr. Mazumder was one of the global co-leaders of the UNESCO-IGCP 509 research project (2005-2009) on the Paleoproterozoic Supercontinent and global evolution. He is an editorial board member of Geology (Geological Society of America), and Sedimentology (journal of the International Association of Sedimentologists, Europe). His research mostly focuses on the Earth's surface processes during its early history.
Dr. Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, Japan. He co-founded a Delhi (India) social entrepreneur startup Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), and RIKA Institute. He is the Co-chair of the United Nations Asia Pacific Science Technology Advisory Group (AP-STAG) and was CLA for IPCC's 6th Assessment Report. Professor Shaw is the recipient of the prestigious "Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA)" in 2021 for his contribution to the education sector. He also received the United Nations Sasakawa Award in 2022 for his lifetime contributions to disaster risk reduction. He is the editor-in-chief of Progress in Disaster Science, a high-impact factor Elsevier journal. He published 66 books and over 450 research papers. More about his work can be found at: www.rajibshaw.org