Mr. Bhupesh Meher, an alumnus of the Central University of Kerala, Department of Geology has been awarded a fellowship to pursue PhD at the University of Negev, Israel.

He will be working on ‘The interplay between water content, deformation, and annealing in the upper mantle’ under Dr. Yuval Boneh, High P-T Rock Deformation Lab, BGU, Israel in collaboration with Dr. Emily J. Chin, University of California, San Diego, USA for four years.