Post Doc : 2025-2026, Project Scientist-I at National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala.

PhD : 2024, University of Calcutta.

Title : Origin and evolution of the Koraput Alkaline Complex in the Eastern Ghats Granulite Belt, India: a petrological and geochemical perspective.

M.Sc : 2014-2016, Applied Geology, University of Calcutta.

B.Sc : 2011-2014, Geology, University of Calcutta.

• 2026 - Present,   Scientist-B, Solid Earth Research Group, National Centre for Earth Science Studies.

• Igneous petrology

1. 2024: Selected for EXCITE2 TNA Call1 in Universiteit Utrecht.
2. 2023: International travel support by Science and Engineering Research Board (now ANRF).
3. 2023: Early Career Scientist's Travel Support by European Geosciences Union.
4. 2019: Financial grant for Sakura Exchange Program in Science administrated by Japan Science and Technology Agency.
5. 2018: Junior Research fellowship award by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

• Sakura Science Club, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

• Koley, M., Ghosh, B., Slama, J., Chattopadhaya, S., Talukdar, D. (2026). Apatite from the ferrogabbro-anorthosite suite of rocks, Koraput Alkaline complex, India: A geochemical and geochronological perspective. Lithos, 108518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2026.108518.
• Pal, T., Roy, S., Chaudhury, S., Mondal, T., Dhar, A., Koley, M., and Ghosh, B. (2025). Fault controlled oxidation: a key role for ferrian chromite formation-an overview from Indian chromite fields. Episodes Journal of International Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2025/025026.
• Koley, M., Ghosh, B., Slama, J., Mikova, J., Chattopadhaya, S., Rao, N.C., Morishita, T., Dhar, A., Roy, S., Kar, R. and Tripathi, S.K. (2025). Origin and evolution of ferrogabbro-anorthosite suite of rocks from the Neoproterozoic Koraput alkaline complex, India: Implication for the Rodinia breakup. Lithos, 508-509, p.108111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108111.
• Chattopadhaya, S., Ghosh, B., Liu, C.Z., Bandyopadhyay, D., Roy, S., Dhar, A., Koley, M. and Kumar, D. (2025). Intraplate alkali basalts related to end-Cretaceous Deccan magmatism: implications for tectonomagmatic processes. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 551(1), pp. SP551-2023. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp551-2023-86.
• Dhar, A., Ghosh, B., Morishita, T., Chattopadhaya, S., Bandyopadhyay, D., Rao, N.C., France, L., Nguyen, D.K., Roy, S. and Koley, M. (2025). Development of oxysymplectites in a slow-spreading lower oceanic crust: Insights from the Atlantis Bank Gabbro Massif, Southwest Indian Ridge. American Mineralogist, 110(5), pp776-790. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2024-9350.
• Roy, S., Ghosh, B., Chattopadhaya, S., Bandyopadhyay, D., Dhar, A., Koley, M., Morishita, T. and Tripathi, S.K. (2024). Mayodia ophiolitic complex of Arunachal Pradesh, India: a multistage evolutionary record during the Tethyan closure. International Geology Review, pp.1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2024.2312512.
• Koley, M., Ghosh, B., Bandyopadhyay, D., Roy, S., Dhar, A., Chattopadhaya, S., Kar, R. and Bhattacharya, S. (2022). Unraveling the pre-metamorphic cooling history of the Koraput Alkaline Complex, India: constraints from feldspar exsolution texture. Mineralogy and Petrology, 116(6), pp.493-513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-022-00795-x.
• Dhar, A., Ghosh, B., Bandyopadhyay, D., Morishita, T., Tamura, A., France, L., Nguyen, D.K., Boulanger, M., Koley, M., Roy, S. and Chattopadhaya, S. (2022). The lower oceanic crust at ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge: The inside story. Gondwana Research, 111, pp.223-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.08.008.
• Roy, S., Bandyopadhyay, D., Morishita, T., Dhar, A., Koley, M., Chattopadhaya, S.,Karmakar, A. and Ghosh, B. (2022). Microtextural evolution of chrome spinels in dunites from Mayodia ophiolite complex, Arunachal Pradesh, India: Implications for a missing link in the "two-stage" alteration mechanism. Lithos, 420, p.106719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106719.
• Chattopadhaya, S., Ghosh, B., Bandyopadhyay, D., Koley, M., Dhar, A. and Roy, S. (2022). Multistage evolution of subcontinental lithospheric mantle of northwestern Deccan volcanic province, India: Constraints from the ultramafic xenoliths in alkali magma. Journal of Earth System Science, 131(1), p.53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-021-01793-x.

1. Petrogenetic evolution of the Koraput alkaline complex, India: connection with the Rodinia breakup. In February 2025. In National Conference on Magmatism, Metamorphism & Metallogeny, at National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Authors: Koley, M., Slama, J., Chattopadhaya, S., Rao, N.V., Kar, R., Ghosh, B.
2. A multivariate approach to study the shape modifications of feldspar exsolution lamellae during cooling: A case study from Koraput Alkaline Complex, India. In May (2023). In EGU General Assembly Conference. Authors: Koley, M., Ghosh, B., Dhar, A. and Roy, S.
3. Perthite microtexture from Koraput Alkaline Complex, Eastern Ghats, India. 2019. In 3rd National Geo-Research Scholars Meet (NGRSM), at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, India. Authors: Koley, M., Banerjee, S., Poddar, A., and Ghosh, B.

1. Koley, M., Ghosh, B., Slama, J., Mikova, J., Chattopadhaya, S., Rao, N.C., Morishita, T., Dhar, A., Roy, S., Kar, R. and Tripathi, S.K. (2025). Origin and evolution of ferrogabbro-anorthosite suite of rocks from the Neoproterozoic Koraput alkaline complex, India: Implication for the Rodinia breakup. Lithos, 508-509, p.108111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108111.
2. Koley, M., Ghosh, B., Slama, J., Chattopadhaya, S., Talukdar, D. (2026). Apatite from the ferrogabbro-anorthosite suite of rocks, Koraput Alkaline complex, India: A geochemical and geochronological perspective. Lithos, 108518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2026.108518.
3. Koley, M., Ghosh, B., Bandyopadhyay, D., Roy, S., Dhar, A., Chattopadhaya, S., Kar, R. and Bhattacharya, S. (2022). Unraveling the pre-metamorphic cooling history of the Koraput Alkaline Complex, India: constraints from feldspar exsolution texture. Mineralogy and Petrology, 116(6), pp.493-513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-022-00795-x.