Banaras Hindu University
Dr. Nagendra Pratap Singh

npsAssociate Professor
Contacts:
Office telephone: +91542-6702959
E mail- singhnpbhu@yahoo.co.in
Department of Geophysics
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi-221005, India

Education:

  • Post Doc, subject, Institute of Seismology & Volcanology, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • PhD, Exploration Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
  • M.Sc. (Tech.) Exploration Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Positions:

  • Associate Professor (Exploration Geophysics) Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University since 2005
  • Senior scientific officer, Department of Geology &Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India from 2004-2005
  • Institute research associate, Department of Geology &Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India from 2003-2004
  • Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia from 1997-1998

Research Interest

  • Electrical, Electromagnetic and Mathematical Geophysics:
  • Development of Modeling and Interpretation Techniques for EM, Electrical and GPR for investigation of Ground water, Mineral, and Engineering & Environmental geophysics problems.
  • Survey, Processing and Interpretation of DC Resistivity and EM data for Shallow subsurface studies,
  • Survey, Processing and Interpretation of Magnetic and MT data for deep tectonic studies
  • Development of Modeling and Inversion algorithm for Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) surveys
  • Development of  Inversion algorithm for EM (Frequency & Time domain) surveys over active volcanic areas
  • Development of Processing and Interpretation Techniques for Gravity and Magnetic surveys

Publications:
Research Papers: 26 (Intenational-24, National-4)
Technical/ Project Reports: 2