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Sonal Khanolkar

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Sonal Khanolkar

Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences

  • BSc: University of Mumbai, 2007
  • MSc: IIT Bombay, 2010
  • PhD: IIT Bombay, 2016



  • Selected Publications

    1. Khanolkar, S*., Roy Choudhury, T., Saraswati, P. K., Banerjee, S. (2021) Late Palaeocene- Early Eocene Foraminiferal
      assemblage and carbon isotope stratigraphy of Jaisalmer, western India. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. v. 51(1) pp. 4-13.

    2. Khanolkar, S*., Schiebel, R., Singh, A., Saraswati, P.K., Jochum, K. P., Weis, U., Stoll, B., Haug, G. H. (2021) Intra-test
      variations in trace element composition of Amphistegina lessonii using fs-LA-ICP-MS: A field study from Okinawa, Japan.
      Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009443.

    3. Khanolkar, S* and Sharma, J. (2019). Record of early to middle Eocene paleoenvironmental changes from lignite mines,
      western India. Journal of Micropaleontology. v. 38(1) pp.1-24.

  • Work Experience

    • Post Doctoral Fellow, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel (Sep 2022 to present)
    • Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Tuebingen (Mar 2022 - Jul 2022)
    • Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Jan 2022 - Feb 2022)
    • Post Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Jul 2019 - Dec 2021)

Research Interests

  • ● Micropaleontology
  • ● Biostratigraphy
  • ● Paleobiology