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Javed N Malik

Javed N Malik

PhD (IIT Madras)

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interest

Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology, Paleo-tsunami Deposits, Geomorphology and Sedimentology.

Office

FB-317,
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016

Specialization

Engineering Geosciences

Education

PhD (Geology), M.S. University of Baroda, 1998

M.Sc. (Geology), M.S. University of Baroda, 1991

B.Sc. (Geology), M.S. University of Baroda, 1989

Teaching Area

Geological Hazards

Paleoseismology

Engineering Geosciences

Engineering Applications of Geological Structure

Selected Publications

Malik, J. N., Shah, A. A.,Naik, S. P., Sahoo, S., Okumura, K., and Patra, N. R. (2014). Active fault study along foothill zone of Kumaun Sub-Himalaya: influence on landscape shaping and drainage evolution. Current Science, 106: 229-236.
Malik, J. N., Shishikura, M., Echigo, T., Ikeda, Y., Satake, K., Kayanne, Swai, Y., Murty, C. V. R., and Dikshit, O. Geologic evidence for two pre-2004 earthquakes during recent centuries near Port Blair, South Andaman Island, India. Geology, v. 39(6); 559-562, GSA, USA.doi:10.1130/G31707.1.
Malik, J. N., Shah, A., Sahoo, A. K., Puhan, B., Banerjee, C., Shinde, D. P., Juyal, N., Singhvi, A. K., Rath, S. K. (2010). Active fault, fault growth and segment linkage along the Janauri anticline (frontal foreland fold), NW Himalaya, India. Tectonophysics, 483: 327-343,doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.10.028.
Cisternas, M., Atwater, B. F,.Torrejo´n, F., Sawai, Y., Machuca, G., Lagos, M., Eipert, A., Youlton, C., Salgado, I., Kamataki, T., Shishikura, M., Rajendran, C. P., Malik, J. N., Rizal, Y., and Husni, M. 2005. Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake. Nature, 437-doi:10.1038/nature03943.404-407. USA
Malik, J. N., Murty, C. V. R. and Rai, D., Landscape Changes in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands(India) after the December 2004 Great Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami. Earthquake Spectra, EERI, 22(S3), 2006,S43–S66.

Awards & Fellowships

Awarded JSPS (Japan Society For the Promotion of Science) Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Japanese Govt. (letter No. JSPS/FF1/98077; ID No. P 99074) for a period of 24 months from 1999-2001 to carry out "A comparative study of active faults in India and Japan", in Japan at Department of Geography, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8522, JAPAN
Awarded BOYSCAST Fellowship 2003-2004 (3 months) to work with Prof. Mustapha Meghraoui and Dr. Jerome Van der Woerd, at Institut De Physique Du Globe De Strausbourg, France.
Awarded YOUNG MUSLIM SCIENTIST AWARD (YMSA)-2002 in Physical Sciences by Muslim Association for Advancement of Science (MAAS).
Awarded S. S. Merh Award 2004 for significant contribution in Quaternary Geology of India by Geological Society of India,Bangalore, India.
JSPS (JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE) SHORT TERM FELLOWSHIP – VISITING RESEARCHER at Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), University of Tokyo, for 02-months June- July, 2013. To work with Prof. Kenji Satake on Comparison between 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami of Indian Ocean and 2011 Tohuko Tsunami of Japan.
POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP – VISITING RESEARCHER at Earthquake Research Institute (ERI),University of Tokyo, for June, 2012.

Professional Experience

Associate Professor (from December 2008) at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur. 208 016 India.

Assistant Professor (November 2001 to December 2007) at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur. 208 016 India.

JSPS-Post Doctoral Fellow (November 1999 to October 2001) Scholarship awarded by Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Tokyo. Research project "A comparative studies on active faults of India and Japan" at Department of Geography, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan.

Research Associate (June 1996 to October 1999) in DST funded research project "Neotectonic and Paleoseismicity of Kacha and its adjoining areas" at the Department of Geology, M. S. University of Baroda.

Project Assistant (June 1992 to February 1995) in DST funded research project "Stratigraphic and Paleoclimatic Studies on the arid and semi-arid basins of western India" at the Department of Geology, M. S. University of Baroda.