Scientist ‘E’
Department of Palaeobotany
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
India
Dr. Ratan Kar is presently working as Scientist ‘E’ at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences loacted at Lucknow, India. • He has been awarded a number of sponsored projects, such as- DST sponsored Young Scientist Fast-Track Project on the Deccen intertrappeans – Palynological, Biopetrological and Dispersed Organic Matter (DOM) study of Deccan Intertrappean sediments with reference to Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) transition. He authored almost 42 Research papers (26 in Impact Factor Journals).
Has worked on a wide range of problems of varying ages and areas which involve the use of palynofossils for their resolution, such as Gondwana sediments (Permiam-Triassic), Deccan Intertrappean beds (Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeocene) and Quaternary fluvio-glacial & lacustrine deposits of the Higher Himalayas and the Polar Region.