DEPARTMENTS
Dr. Madhavan K.
Dr. Madhavan K.

Assistant Professor

Office Address:

DB 314 Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut

Contact no:

0495-2286284

Home Address:

  • Ph.D. Metamorphic Petrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (Thesis: Metamorphism and Monazite Geochronology of the Low Pressure Metamorphic Belt Near Ramanujganj, Western Chhotanagpur Terrane, Chhattisgarh)

  • Master of Science in Geology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (Thesis: Fabric analysis in Meta Gabbro from Italy.)

  • Bachelor of Science in Geology, National College, Trichy, India

  • Educational Qualifications

    • Ph.D. Metamorphic Petrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (Thesis: Metamorphism and Monazite Geochronology of the Low Pressure Metamorphic Belt Near Ramanujganj, Western Chhotanagpur Terrane, Chhattisgarh)

    • Master of Science in Geology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (Thesis: Fabric analysis in Meta Gabbro from Italy.)

    • Bachelor of Science in Geology, National College, Trichy, India

    July 22 – Present                Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut

    September 21-June 22       Adhoc Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, NITK Surathkal

    January-June 2021             Research Associate, Dept of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay             

    2012-2013                          National Geophysical Research Institute (CSIR–NGRI, Hyderabad) Title: HEART PSC (Project Assistant Level-II)     

    June-July 2012                  Summer Intern, ONGC , Karaikal,Tamil Nadu,  India

    Ramprasad, R., Madhavan, K*, Vijay Anand, S., Santosh, M., Dora, M. L., Yang, C.-X., & Roy, S. (2026). Neoarchean arc magmatism and Paleoarchean crustal reworking at Kattamadavu, Southern Granulite Terrane: Insights into Archean continental growth [Manuscript under review]. Journal of Geochemical Research.

    Ramprasad, R., Madhavan, K*, Vijay Anand, S., Santosh, M., Dora, M. L., Yang, C.-X., & Roy, S. (2026). Paleoarchean crustal reworking and Neoarchean convergent margin tectonics in the Southern Granulite Terrane, India: Insights into Archean continental growth [Manuscript under review]. Lithos.

    Chaurasia, C., Madhavan, K., Thakur, S. S., Patel, S. C., Samal, A. K., Nema, S., & Dixit, P. K. (2020). Occurrence and stability of allanite and monazite in the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Dhauliganga Valley, Garhwal Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 96, 557–564.

    Sheikh, J. M., Patel, S. C., Champati, A. K., Madhavan, K., Behera, D., Naik, A., & Gerdes, A. (2020). Nepheline syenite intrusions from the Rengali Province, eastern India: Integrating geological setting, microstructures, and geochronological observations on their syntectonic emplacement. Precambrian Research, 346, 105802.

    Thakur, S. S., Madhavan, K., Patel, S. C., Rameshwar Rao, D., Singh, A. K., Pandey, S., & Nandini, P. (2018). Yttrium-zoning in garnet and stability of allanite in metapelites from the Main Central Thrust Zone and adjacent Higher Himalayan Crystallines along the Alaknanda Valley, NW Himalaya. Lithos, 320–321, 1–19. 

    Deshmukh, T., Prabhakar, N., Bhattacharya, A., & Madhavan, K. (2017). Late Paleoproterozoic clockwise P–T history in the Mahakoshal Belt, Central Indian Tectonic Zone: Implications for Columbia supercontinent assembly. Precambrian Research, 298, 56–78. 

     

    Senior Research Fellowship by MHRD, Govt. of India (2016-2019) 

    Junior Research Fellowship by MHRD, Govt. of India (2013-2015)

    Institute Inspire Scholarship by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2010-2012 )

    Selected for Officer Trainee (E-1) post in Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (A Govt. of India Enterprise)

    Qualified UGC NET (AIR-96) and Lectureship (2013)

    Qualified GATE 2013 Entrance exam

    Qualified JAM 2010 Entrance exam

    Teaching courses at NIT Calicut

    • CE2005D: Engineering Geology
    • CE6426: Landslide Mitigation Methods

    Teaching courses at NITK Surathkal

    • CV202: Engineering Geology
    • CV218: Mining Geology Lab 

    Teaching Assistanhip at IIT Bombay

    • GS430: Metamorpic petrology Lab
    • GS318: Applied Geology for Civil Engineers Lab

    Workshop attened:

    Sept 2011                     Workshop on “Log Analysis” at IIT Kharagpur

                                      (Instructor: Prof. Max Mille, TOTAL Professeurs Associes, Paris, France)

    January 2013               DST- Sponsored National Training on “Geochemical Modelling in Igneous Petrogenesis:                                                 An Introduction to GCDkit”

     

    Conference:

     

               C Chaurasia, S Thakur, K Madhavan, S Patel, A Samal - AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2021

     

    • Records of near-isothermal decompression and clockwise P–T history from the Paleoproterozoic Mahakoshal Belt, Central Indian Tectonic Zone: Constraints from pseudosection modelling and monazite geochronology

               Tanzil Deshmukh (1), Prabhakar Naraga (1), Abhijit Bhattacharya (2), and Madhavan Kaliappan (1) 

               EGU General Assembly 2017

    Consultancy work:

    Consultancy works related to landslide slope stability studies in Mines, 8 Lakhs. 

    Meso-scale of Susceptibility Mapping of Vilangad landslide, Kozhikode, Funding agency Kerala Govt, 25 Lakhs.