TARUN KHANNA

Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar

BOYSCAST Fellow

Tarun is a staff scientist with the National Geophysical Research Institute Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in Hyderbad, India.  He received his PhD in geochemistry from Osmania University in Hyderbad, India in 2007.  Tarun is visiting the University of South Carolina for the 2010-2011 academic year on a prestigious BOYSCAST Fellowship, which is sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Tarun’s research is concentrated in the fields of Archean greenstone terranes of the Dharwar Craton, India. His dissertation research was on the geochemistry of the volcanic rocks of the Gadwal Greenstone Belt of eastern Dharwar Craton, India. Tarun has also carried out geochemical studies in the various other belts (Penakacherla, Kadiri, Bababudan, Sigegudda, Hutti, Sandur) of both eastern and western sectors of the Dharwar Craton.

His postdoctoral research is focused on Hf and Nd isotope geochronology and geochemistry on various greenstone-belt volcanic rock samples of the Dharwar Craton in Southern India.  Tarun’s work at South Carolina is in close collaboration with Dr. Michael Bizimis, of our department.