Dr. Rajneesh Bhutani

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I am an isotope geochemist and use radiogenic isotopes as tools to understand evolution of the solid Earth through time. This has provided me opportunities to work in variety of terrains, from the oldest rocks in southern India to the tectonically active zones in Ladakh; from the continental flood basalts in western India to the ocean floor trapped in the Indo-Burmese ranges in Manipur and the Barren Island volcano in the Andaman Sea.
I have been teaching in Pondicherry University for about eighteen years now. My present teaching assignments are related to crystallography, mineralogy, isotope geology and global tectonics.

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Oinam Kingson, Rajneesh Bhutani, S. Balakrishnan, J. K.Dash & A.D. Shukla (2019) Subduction-related Manipur Ophiolite Complex, Indo- Myanmar Ranges: elemental and isotopic record of mantle metasomatism. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 481, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP481.9.

Oinam Kingson, Rajneesh Bhutani, J.K.Dash, Sibin Sebastian, Rajneesh Bhutani (2017). Resolving the conundrum in origin of the Manipur Ophiolite Complex, Indo-Myanmar range: Constraints from Nd isotopic ratios and elemental concentrations in serpentinized peridotite. Chemical Geology 360,117-129.

Maya J.M., Rajneesh Bhutani, S. Balakrishnan, Rajee Sandhya (2016). Petrogenesis of 3.15 Ga old Banasandra komatiites from the Dharwar Craton India: Implications for early mantle heterogeneities. Geoscience Frontiers, 8, 467-481.

Jitendra K. Dash, Sujit K. Pradhan, Rajneesh Bhutani, S. Balakrishnan, G. Chandrasekaran and N. Basavaiah 2013; Paleomagnetism of ca. 2. 3 Ga mafic dyke swarms in the northeastern Southern Granulite Terrain, India: Constraints on the position and extent of Dharwar craton in the Paleoproterozoic. Precambrian Research, 228,164-176

Rajneesh Bhutani, Kanchan Pande and T. R. Venkatesan, 2009; 40Ar-39Ar dating of volcanic rocks of the Shyok Suture Zone in North-West Trans-Himalaya: Implications for the post-collision evolution of the Shyok Suture Zone. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.jseas.2008.03.013

Vice-Chancellor Prof. P. Prakash Babu inaugurated the DST-FIST Level B-sponsored Extrusion Hub at the Dept. of Food Science & Technology with the generous support of Dept. of Science & Technology, GoI & delivered the presidential address. Furthermore Pondicherry University aims to empower small-scale food entrepreneurs and farmers.

Prof. P. Prakash Babu assumed charge as the Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry University, Puducherry, on the 17th March 2025.

The MoU signing ceremony between Pondicherry University and Oregon State University, USA, was held on 21.01.25 in the presence of honourable VC (i/c) Prof. K. Tharanikkarasu and Registrar (i/c) Prof. Rajneesh Bhutani.

Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Dr. L. Murugan inaugurated the 2nd AoH and InSPA International Conference on 24th January 2025 at Pondicherry University. Hon’ble Speaker of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly Shri R. Selvam, Hon’ble Home and Education Minister Shri A. Namassivayam, and Hon’ble MLA Shri P.M.L. Kalayanasundaram felicitated. Prof. K. Tharanikkarasu, Vice Chancellor (i/c), presided over the event.

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