Sunil Kumar Singh (geochemist)

Sunil Kumar Singh (born 1971) is a leading Indian geochemist, a Professor at the Physical Research Laboratory on lien[1] and serving as Director of the National Institute of Oceanography, India since 2017.

[2] He is known for his studies on low temperature elemental and isotope geochemistry and his researches are reported to have assisted in widening the understanding of the evolution of the Himalayas.

[5] Singh, born on 16 March 1971,[6] has done his education BSc, MSc, PhD in geology at Banaras Hindu University.

He is a former Scientific Steering Committee member[7] and the incumbent member of the Data Management Committee of GEOTRACES, an international forum for research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and isotopes.

[9] He was the co-coordinator of Weathering and Erosion session of the 2016 Goldschmidt conference held in Yokohama.