Nibir Mandal

Nibir Mandal (born 1963) is an Indian structural geologist and a professor of Geological Sciences at Jadavpur University.

[5][note 1] Nibir Mandal, born on 6 November 1963 at Jahangirpur in the Murshidabad district of the Indian state of West Bengal to Mahadev Mandal and Renuka, completed his graduate studies in science at Jadavpur University in 1984 and obtained a master's degree from the same university in 1987.

He also serves as an adjunct professor at the department of earth sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

[2] Through his experimental and theoretical work, he is reported to have proposed a theory of particle motion associated with faults undergoing both translational and rotational movement.

[10][11][12] Mandal received the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1992.