Professional Experience

Associate Professor (2021 - )

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

Assistant Professor (2015 - 2021)

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

Scientist

National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS)

(Dept. of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India)

Thiruvananthapuram

Petrophysicist

Shell Technology India, Bangalore

Academic Record

Ph.D. (Spectroscopy, Remote Sensing, Planetary Exploration):

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.

Thesis Title: Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectroscopy of Terrestrial Rocks for Spectral Remote Sensing and Image Analysis

M.Tech (GIS, Remote Sensing, Hydrogeology):

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.

Thesis Title: Remote Sensing and GIS for Hydrogeological Studies in Panvel Basin, Maharashtra

M.Sc.Tech (Applied Geology)

Indian School of Mines (IIT-ISM Dhanbad), Dhanbad, India.

Publications (Recent, selected)

Adnan Ahmad, Raj Patel, Bhaswati Deka, Rohit Nagori, AS Arya, Archana M Nair (2022) Occurrence of secondary minerals at Tharsis Montes of Mars: A critical assessment ICARUS 378, 114953

Shreya Katre, Archana M Nair (2022)Modelling the effect of grain anisotropy on inter-granular porosity. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology 12, 783-781.

Siddharth Garia, Arnab Kumar Pal, K Ravi, Archana M Nair (2022) A multivariate statistical approach in correlating the acoustic properties with petrophysics and mineralogy on sandstones Geophysical Journal International (1) 170-178.

Ande Bhuvaneswari Devi, Dhritilekha Deka, Thayyil Davood Aneesh, Reji Srinivas, Archana M Nair. (2022) Predictive modelling of land use land cover dynamics for a tropical coastal urban city in Kerala, India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences (2022) 15(5) 1-19.

Arnab Kumar Pal, Siddharth Garia, K Ravi, Archana M Nair (2022) Pore scale image analysis for petrophysical modelling, Micron, 154 (4) 103195.

Adnan Ahmad and Archana Nair (2021) Landform evolution of Tharsis Montes and Olympus Mons of Mars: Insights from morphometric, lypsometric and chronologiv evidences. Journal of Earth System Science 130 (3) 1-20. Publisher: Springer

Garia, S., Pal, A.K., Ravi, K. and Nair, A.M. (2021) Laboratory assessment on factors controlling the acoustic properties of carbonates: A case study from Bombay offshore. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2021.108607. Publisher: Elsevier

Garia, S., Pal, A.K., Ravi, K. and Nair, A.M., (2019). A comprehensive analysis on the relationships between elastic wave velocities and petrophysical properties of sedimentary rocks based on laboratory measurements. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 9:1869–1881. DOI:10.1007/s13202-019-0675-0. Publisher: Springer

Archana M Nair and G. Mathew (2017) Geochemical modelling of Terrestrial Igneous Rock Compositions using Laboratory Thermal Emission Spectroscopy with an overview on its applications to Indian Mars Mission, Planetary and Space Science Vol. 10, pp 62-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2017.04.009. Publisher: Elsevier