Work Experience
July 2020- present: Postdoctoral researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
April 2018 – June 2020: Project Scientist at National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa, India
May 2014 – January 2019: PhD candidate at University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
May 2014 – September 2017: PhD candidate at Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
July 2012 – March 2014: Lecturer in Physics at Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, RK Valley, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India
Education
May 2014 – January 2019: PhD Candidate at Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway (Worked at Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway)
- Thesis: Climatic Mass Balance and Meltwater Routing of Glacierized area of
- Kongsfjord basin, northwest Svalbard
- https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/66402
- Advisors: Jack Kohler, Jon Ove Hagen, Thomas V. Schuler, Thamban Meloth
July 2010 – May 2012 Master of Science in physics
- Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
- Thesis: Synthesis of TiO2 Nanotube Arrays by Electrochemical Anodization for Gas Sensing Application
- Advisor: Somnath Chanda Roy
- GPA: 7.69/10
June 2007 – May 2010 Bachelor in Science in Physics (Honours), Chemistry and Mathematics
- University of Calcutta, India
- 63.5% – First Class Honours
Publications
- Ankit Pramanik, Sandra Arndt, Nick Hayes, Mauro Werder, Frank Pattyn. Simulating
hydrology and tracer dynamics in a subglacial environment underneath the Greenland
ice sheet. (in preparation) - Ankit Pramanik, Nick Hayes, Sandra Arndt, Frank Pattyn. Subglacial biogeochemical
processes – A review and a new conceptual model. (in preparation) - Ankit Pramanik, Sunil Oulkar, Bhanu Pratap, Ajit Singh, Parmanand Sharma, Meloth
Thamban. Mass balance of glaciers of Chandra basin 1980-2018. (in preparation) - Sunil Oulkar, Thamban Meloth, Parmanand Sharma, Ajit Singh, Bhanu Pratap, Lavkush
K Patel, Ankit Pramanik, M. Ravichandran (2022) . Distributed surface energy and
mass balance of Sutri Dhaka Glacier, Chandra Basin, Western Himalaya, India.Frontiers
in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.949735 - Subeesh M.P, Divya David T, Ravichandran M, Sourav Chatterjee, Ankit Pramanik,
M. Nuncio (2022). Near-inertial waves in an Arctic fjord and their impact on vertical mixing
of Atlantic Water mass. Progress in Physical Oceanography, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102844 - Ankit Pramanik, Jack Kohler, Glen Liston, Katrin Lindbäck, Ward van Pelt, Penelope
How, Thomas V. Schuler (2020). Hydrology and runoff routing of glacierized drainage
basin of Kongsfjord, northwest Svalbard.The Cryosphere Discussions, doi: 10.5194/tc-
2020-197 - Ankit Pramanik, Jack Kohler, Thomas V. Schuler, Ward van Pelt, Lana Cohen (2019).
Comparison of snow accumulation events on two High-Arctic glaciers to model-derived
and observed precipitaion. Polar Research, 38, 3364, doi: 10.33265/polar.v38.3364 - L. Halbach, M. Vihtakari, P. Duarte, A. Everett, H. Hop, H.M. Kauko, S. Kristiansen,
P.I. Myhre, A.K. Pavlov, A. Pramanik, A. Wold, A. Wulff, H. Steen, P. Assmy (2019).
Tidewater glaciers and bedrock characteristics control phytoplankton growth environment
in a fjord in the Arctic. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6:254. doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00254 - Ankit Pramanik, Ward van Pelt, Jack Kohler, Thomas V. Schuler (2018). Simulating
climatic mass balance, seasonal snow development and associated fresh water runoff in
the Kongsfjord basin, Svalbard (1980-2016). Journal of Glaciology, 64(248), 943-956,
doi: 10.1017/jog.2018.80 - K. M. Schild, C. E. Renshaw, D. I. Benn, A. Luckman, R. L. Hawley, P. How, L. Trusel,
F. R. Cottier, A. Pramanik, N. R. J. Hulton (2018). Glacier Calving Rates due to
Subglacial Discharge, Fjord Circulation, and Free Convection. Journal of Geophyscical
Research: Earth Surface, 123, 2189-2204, doi: 10.1029/2017JF004520 - Alistair Everett, Jack Kohler, Arild Sundfjord, Kit M. Kovacs, Tomas Torsvik, Ankit
Pramanik, Lars Boehme, Christian Lydersen (2018). Subglacial discharge plume behavior
revealed by CTD-instrumented ringed seals. Scientific Reports, 8, 13467, doi:
10.1038/s41598-018-31875-8