DESCRIPTION :

Dr. Sasmita Prusty, Sr. Scientist has obtained her M.Sc. and M.Phil (Geology) in 2005 and 2006 respectively from Utkal University. She pursued her Doctorate degree at CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar and was awarded Ph.D. from Utkal University. She qualified UPSC (central geological service) batch 2006 and joined Geological Survey of India, Pune as a Geologist in February 2010. She promoted to Sr. Geologist in 2015 and transferred to GSI, Hyderabad in 2016. She has experience in geological , geochemical mapping, petrographic study of rocks and minerals, composite materials,beach sand heavy mineral, integration of spatial data.  She joined IMMT in December 2019 as a Sr. Scientist.

• • Geologist in Geological Survey of India, Pune from February 2010 to December 2014,
    
  • Sr.Geologist in Geological Survey of India Hyderabad from January 2015 to 2nd December 2019
    
  • Sr. Scientist from 3.12.19 at IMMT, Bhubaneswar

Ore geology, Mineralogy

• GATE 2007
  
• NET 2006

RECENT PUBLICATIONS :

• Prusty S., Sarkar A., Sen, B. Characterisation of Porpoli ultramafic rock, Sindhudurg District Maharashtra, Vistas of Geological research (2015)
  
• Prusty, S., Mohapatra, B.K. and Singh, S.K. (2013) Separation of Sillimanite from beach sand of Odisha coast for value addition. Mining engineers journal, v.14, pp.22-32
  
• Prusty, Sasmita, Mishra, D. K., Mohapatra, B. K. Mishra, G. and Singh, S. K., (2012) Preparation of fused zirconia/mullite aggregates from sillimanite, zircon and alumina mixtures via plasma, Journal of the American Ceramic Society 95 (2) 530-537.
  
• Mishra, D. K., Prusty, Sasmita, Mohapatra, B. K. and Singh, S. K. (2012) A comparative study of CaO-MUZ elaboration by plasma melting and sintering technique, Materials and Manufacturing Processes 27 (3) 284-290.
  
• Prusty, Sasmita, Mishra, D. K., Mohapatra, B. K., Mishra, Gopa and Singh, S. K. (2012) Optical and Micro-Raman characterization of fused mullite prepared from beach sand sillimanite, Materials and Manufacturing Processes 27 (5) 481-485.
  
• Prusty, Sasmita, Mishra, D. K., Mohapatra, B. K. and Singh, S. K., (2012) Effect of MgO in the microstructure formation of zirconia mullite composites from sillimanite and zircon, Ceramics International 38 2363-2368.
  
• Mishra, D. K., Prusty, Sasmita, Mohapatra, B. K., Singh S. K. and Behera, S. N.(2012) Role of Y2O3, CaO, MgO Additives on Structural and Microstructural Behavior of Zirconia/Mullite Aggregates, AIP Conf. Proc. 1461 307-311
  
• Prusty, Sasmita, Mishra, Gopa, Mohapatra, B. K., Varma, Shikha , Singh, S. K. and Mishra, D. K., (2011) Structural and micro-structural properties of fused ZrO2-mullites, Materials and Manufacturing Processes 26 (2) 282-287.
  
• Prusty, Sasmita, Mishra, D. K., Mohapatra, B. K. and Singh, S. K., (2011) Correlation between properties of zirconia mullite and Y2O3 stabilized zirconia mullite derived by various processing techniques, Advances in Applied Ceramics 110 360-366
  
• Prusty, Sasmita, Mohapatra, B. K., Singh, S. K. and Rao, R. Bhima, (2009) Recovery of sillimanite from beach sand of Chhatrapur, Orissa, India and its thermal treatment for refractory application, International Journal Mining and Mineral Engineering 1( 4) 397-408.
  
• Gopa Mishra, Sankar Mohapatra, Sasmita Prusty, Manoj K Sharma, Ratnamala Chatterjee, Saroj K Singh and D. K. Mishra, Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline ?-SiC, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 11 (2011) 5049-5053.

PROJECTS WORKED ON :

• Geochemical mapping in parts of Sindhudurgh district Maharashtra
  
• Specialised thematic mapping in precambrian rocks of Sindhudurgh district to identify preliminarily the host rocks for Fe, Mn, Cr, Co, Ni mineralisation.
  
• Integration of geological, geochemical and geophysical data to identify mineral potential zone in parts of degree sheet 58I and E, Tamilnadu, India
  
• Integration of geological, geochemical and geophysical data to identify mineral potential zone in parts of degree sheet 57F, Andhrapradesh, India