Dr Shubhasmita Biswal

Assistant Professor

Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
Department of Lithospheric Research
Ks. Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa
tel.: +48 22 6915 788
email: sbiswal@igf.edu.pl

Education

2021 PhD degree in Geophysics: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKgp), India.

Employment

2023 - Assistant Professor at the Department of Seismic Studies of the Lithosphere (ZSBL)

Scientific interests

  • Seismic anisotropy
  • Tomography of local earthquakes
  • Analysis of surface wave dispersion

Scientific interships

2017 Visiting scientist (3 months) Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ, Wielka Brytania
2022 3 month stay in Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), University of Tokyo, Japan.
Awards and prizes
2022 Awarded with National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) by the SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
2021 Awarded with visiting Research Fellowship from the Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), University of Tokyo, Japan.
2017 Awarded with visiting Research Internship from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ, United Kingdom.
2014 Awarded with INSPIRE-fellowship (1398-2013) by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
2013 University Gold Medalist in M.Sc. (Geophysics) in the Year 2012 by Berhampur University, Odisha, India.
 

Publications

1. Biswal, S., Kumar, S., Priestley, K., Mohanty, W.K., Parija, M.P (2022). Velocity structure and deep earthquakes beneath the Kinnaur NW Himalaya: constraints from relocated seismicity and Moment Tensor analysis. Lithosphere (GSA) (https://doi.org/10.2113/2022/2834594) 

 2. Parija, M. P., Kumar, S., Tiwari, V. M., Biswal, S., Biswas, A.K., V.H., Arjun (2021).Coulomb stress modeling and seismicity in the western Himalaya, India since 1905: Implications for the incomplete ruptures of the Main Himalayan Thrust. Tectonics (AGU). 40 (9), (doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006204) 

3. Biswal, S., Kumar, S., Roy, S.K., Kumar, M.R., Mohanty, W.K., Parija, M. P., Paul, A. (2020). Upper mantle anisotropy beneath the western segment, NW Indian Himalaya using shear wave splitting. Lithosphere (GSA) (doi: https://doi.org/10.2113/2020/8856812)

4. Parija, M. P., Kumar, S., Tiwari, V. M., Purnachandra Rao, N., Kumar, N., Biswal, S., Singh, I. (2018). Microseismicity, Tectonics and seismic potential in the Western Himalayan segment, NW Himalaya, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 159, 1-16. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.03.016)

5. Kumar, S., Singh, P., Singh, P., Biswal, S., Parija, M. P. (2016). Frequency dependent attenuation characteristics of coda waves in the Northwestern Himalayan (India) region. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 117, 337–345.(doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.12.023) 

6.Parija, M. P., Kumar, S. Biswal, S., Kumar, N., Mishra, S. K. (2016). preliminary one-dimensional crustal Velocity model for Himachal Pradesh, India. Journal of Seismology, 20, 305–318. I.F: 1.48. (doi: 10.1007/s10950-015-9528-6)  

Author

Rozdziału 13 - Static stress change from February 6, 2017 (M5.8) earthquake Northwestern Himalaya, India. Mahesh Prasad Parija, Shubhasmita Biswal, Arkoprovo Biswas. Basics of Computational Geophysics (2021). p. 213-222. Elsevier.(https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820513-6.00020-5) 

Abstracts

1. Biswal, S., Kumar, S., Mohanty, W.K. (2021). Lithospheric structure and active deformation beneath the NW Himalaya, India: Seismotectonic Implications. Joint Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) and the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI), Hyderabad, India. 21st to 27th August, 2021. 

 2. Biswal, S., Kumar, S., Mohanty, W.K., Parija, M.P (2019). Imaging the lithospheric structure across NW Himalaya, India utilizing local seismic tomography. European Geoscience Union Meeting (EGU), Vienna, Austria, Vol. 21, EGU2019-7186-1, 2019. Published online 

 3. Biswal, S., Kumar, S., Mohanty, W.K., Parija, M.P (2018). Crustal Structure Variation Across NW Himalaya, India from P to S converted phases. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 15th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 03-08 June 2018. SE34-A006 

 4. Biswal, S., Mohanty, W.K., Kumar, S., Parija, M.P (2016). Seismic anisotropy beneath NW Himalaya using SKS and SKKS Splitting measurements. American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Published online. S53A-2833. 

 5. Parija, M. P., Kumar, S., Biswal, S. (2016). Microseismicity, Tectonics and seismic potential in the Western Himalayan segment, NW Himalaya (India) region, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016. Published online. S53A-2830 (Poster). 

 6. Kumar, S., Biswal, S., Parija, M. P. (2016). Active Tectonics of Himalayan Faults/Thrusts System in Northern India on the basis of recent & Paleo-earthquake Studies. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016. Published online. S44B-06 (Oral). 

 7. Kumar, S., Parija, M.P., Biswal, S., (2015). Seismic coda attenuation after the Mw= 6.9 Sikkim (India) earthquake of 18 September 2011. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 12th Annual Meeting, Singapore, 02-07 August 2015. SE02-A019