Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
📍 AB2 5F4
✉️
 |
 |
 |
 |
Research Area
Geochemistry
Research Interests
My research primarily focuses on understanding the long-term natural and anthropogenic influences on aquatic systems. A significant aspect of my work involves monitoring emerging contaminants, such as microplastics and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which pose new challenges to environmental health. Additionally, I investigate regime shifts in aquatic environments, analyzing how these systems transition between different states in response to various external pressures. Another critical area of my research examines the impact of fire on terrestrial ecosystems, exploring how fire events alter ecological dynamics and affect both terrestrial and aquatic systems. The findings from my research will contribute to the development of effective strategies for environmental conservation and sustainability.
2015 - 2017 : Inspire Faculty at IISER Mohali
2014 - 2015 : Post doctoral fellow at IISER Kolkata
2013 - 2013 : Research Associate/Post doctoral fellow at German Research Center for Geoscience (GFZ Potsdam), Germany
2008 - 2013 : University of Potsdam and GFZ Germany
2005 - 2007 : M.Sc. Applied Geology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
2002 - 2005 : B.Sc. Geology, University College, Kerala University, Kerala, India
Inspire Faculty Award, 2015
Yadav Ankit, Kumar Ajay, Sharma Nischal, Sahil Kaushal, Vishal Kataria, Elisabeth Dietze and Ambili Anoop. Atmospheric deposition of microplastics in an urban conglomerate near to the foothills of Indian Himalayas: investigating the quantity, chemical character, possible sources and transport mechanisms. Environmental Pollution, page 124629, 2024. Sunil Kumar, Diptimayee Behera, Kumar Ajay, Balasubramanian Karthick, Chetan Dharia and Ambili Anoop. Microplastics and heavy metal contamination along a land-use gradient in a Himalayan foothill river: Prevalence and controlling factors. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, page 104411, 2024. Diptimayee Behera, S Krishnakumar and Ambili Anoop. Occurrence, distribution and sources of petroleum contamination in reef-associated sediments of the Gulf of Mannar, India. Marine Pollution Bulletin 196:115576, 2023. Yadav Ankit, Praveen K Mishra, Bulbul Mehta, Ambili Anoop, Sandhya Misra and Tiatoshi Jamir. Hydroclimatic variability in Northeast India during the last two millennia: Sedimentological and geochemical record from Shilloi Lake, Nagaland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 602:111151, 2022. Yadav Ankit, Wani Muneer, Birgit Gaye, Niko Lahajnar, Sharmila Bhattacharya, Mehta Bulbul, Arshid Jehangir, Ambili Anoop and Praveen K Mishra. Apportioning sedimentary organic matter sources and its degradation state: inferences based on aliphatic hydrocarbons, amino acids and $\delta$15N. Environmental Research 205:112409, 2022. Diptimayee Behera, Sharmila Bhattacharya, Abdur Rahman, Sanjeev Kumar and Ambili Anoop. Molecular tracers for characterization and distribution of organic matter in a freshwater lake system from the Lesser Himalaya. Biogeochemistry 161(3):315–334, 2022. Mehta Bulbul, Sharmila Bhattacharya, Yadav Ankit, Pushpit Yadav and Ambili Anoop. Occurrence, distribution and sources of phthalates and petroleum hydrocarbons in tropical estuarine sediments (Mandovi and Ashtamudi) of western Peninsular India. Environmental Research 214:113679, 2022. Yadav Ankit, Aljasil Chirakkal, Vishal Kataria, Ambili Anoop and Praveen K Mishra. From biomass to fossil fuels: A contemporaneous transition to anthropogenic driven environmental changes recorded in a Central Himalayan Lake. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 8:100186, 2022. Yadav Ankit, Wani Muneer, Niko Lahajnar, Birgit Gaye, Sandhya Misra, Arshid Jehangir, Ambili Anoop and Praveen K Mishra. Long term natural and anthropogenic forcing on aquatic system-evidence based on biogeochemical and pollen proxies from lake sediments in Kashmir Himalaya, India. Applied Geochemistry 131:105046, 2021. Kumar Ajay, Diptimayee Behera, Sharmila Bhattacharya, Praveen K Mishra, Yadav Ankit and Ambili Anoop. Distribution and characteristics of microplastics and phthalate esters from a freshwater lake system in Lesser Himalayas. Chemosphere 283:131132, 2021.