Dr.

Sajid Ali
Designation Associate Professor
Office-Address Department of Environmental Science
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University)
New Delhi -110 025
Mobile No. # 91-9140580897, 9794665777
E-mail: asajid2@[Link]
sajidali7861@[Link]

VIDWAN ID: 298488

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6297-6127
SCOPUS ID: 55910897300
GOOGLE SCHOLAR ID: rLK5Gw4AAAAJ

Major Research Interest

Heavy metals contamination in Surface and sub-surface
water and sediments and health risk assessment
Paleoclimate reconstruction
Tectonic and climatic link with Indian monsoon
Long-term Carbon Cycle
Use of traditional and non-traditional isotopes (e.g. Sr, Nd,
Pb, Li, Si, Hf) to understand earth surface processes

Teaching and Research Experience 15 years

Administrative experience 1 years

PhD Guidance (under progress): 2

Research Publications: 22
Citations: 373
H index: 6

International Visits: Switzerland, Germany, Morocco, United Kingdom (UK),

France, Italy, Denmark, Argentina, Mauritius
ACADEMIC
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Degree/Exam Topic/Specialization University Year Remark
Ph. D. Cretaceous to Quaternary Siliciclastic Sediments University of Kiel, 2012
of the Tarfaya Basin, Marginal Atlantic, SW Germany
Morocco: Petrography, Geochemistry,
Provenance, Climate and Weathering
Master of Applied Geology Indian Institute of 2007 70.6%
Science Technology (IIT),
Rookree

Bachelor of Geology (Hons.) Aligarh Muslim 2004 67.8%

Science University (AMU), Rank-II
Aligarh

AWARDS/SCHOLORSHIPS/GRANTS
S. No. Title Duration
1. Conference travel grant by Young Earth Scientist (YES), held in Berlin, 2019
Germany
2. DAAD research grant to visit GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, 11-12/2018
Kiel Germany
3. Postdoc-project funding at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India 2015-2017
4. Postdoc project funding at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, 2013-2014
Kiel, Germany
5. Conference travel grant by International Association of Sedimentologists, 2010
held in Mendoza, Argentina
6. Project funding by RWE Dea oil Company to conduct research at Kiel 2008-2012
University Kiel, Germany
7. Swiss Government funding to work as research scientist at Swiss Federal 2007-2008
Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Switzerland

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

S. No. Title Professional Body
1. Fellow Member European Association of Geochemistry
2. Fellow Member International Association of Sedimentologist
3. Life Member Indian Ocean Society of India
4. Fellow Member Young Earth Scientist (YES)

TRAINING ATTENDED
S. No. Title Organization Duration
1. Teaching training of Academic University of Kiel, February, 2013
instruction for university teachers Germany
2. Professional manuscript writing University of Kiel, Germany June, 2010
training
3. Intercultural Training Studentenwerk Schleswig November, 2008
Holstein, Kiel, Germany
4. Introduction to ArcGIS 9 Indian Institute of Technology April, 2007
(IIT), Roorkee
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

September 2011 to till date

Associate Professor Department of Environmental Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Responsibilities included teaching at the post-graduate level. Research and Academic planning.
Currently supervising nine M. Sc. and two Ph.D. candidates.

April 2017 to August 2022

Scientist Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow. Responsibilities included
teaching at pre-PhD level. Actively involved in the research activities of the Institute.

May 2015 to April 2017

Post-doctoral fellow Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Actively involved in the research activities of the department and field studies.

January 2013 to December 2014

Post-doctoral fellow GEOMAR Helmholtz Ocean Research Centre, Kiel Germany
Responsibilities included teaching at the undergraduate level. Actively involved in the research
activities of the Institute, field studies and supervising graduate students.

July 2007 to June 2008

Research Scientist Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Actively involved in the research activities of the Institute and field studies.

COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate Level
S. No. Course
1. Environmental Geosciences
2. EIA and Legislation
3. Environmental Instrumentation
4. Data Analysis in Environmental systems
RESEARCH GUIDANCE

Ph.D. in Progress

S. No. Title Student Status

1. Tectonic and climatic control on Indian monsoon during Mohd Munazir In progress
Middle-Late Miocene: a record from Himalayan foreland Chauhan
basin
2. Weathering processes and climatic manifestation during Nazakat In progress
the Late Quaternary from Central Ganga Plain Ali

M. Sc. DISSERTATION GUIDANCE

S. Title Student Year
No.
1. Late Quaternary Paleoclimate and environment records from Faizan Khan In progress
Rajasthan
2. Precipitation pattern over the past 120 years: A record from Sanya In progress
Indian subcontinent Narbar
3. Toxic mechanisms of five heavy metals: Mercury, Lead, Suhail Ahmad In progress
Chromium, Cadmium and Arsenic
4. Heavy metal concentration in Yamuna river flood plain Shamza Alam In progress
5. Soil texture, structure and chemistry Shanawaz In progress
Ahmed
6. HM accumulation in Yamuna river water: a record from New Manuprasad Kc In progress
Delhi
7. BETX pollution in New Delhi Husna Parveen In progress

8. Heavy metal contamination of ground water, North Delhi Fazle Ahmed In progress

9. Ground water contamination and health risk assessment, Afreen Fatma In progress
South Delhi
10. Periodic aridification drove changes in the outflow of Stellan Rieken 2013
Mediterranean water into the North Atlantic during the past
3.2 million years
ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTION

REVIEWER OF RESEARCH JOURNALS

S. No. Journal
1. International Journal of Sediment Research Elsevier
2. Journal of African Earth Sciences Elsevier
3. Arabian Journal of Geosciences Springer
4. Geological Journal Wiley
5. Lithosphere GeoScienceWord
6. Open Geosciences Walter de Gruyter

CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS

CONFERENCES ORGANISED
S. No. Capacity Title Year
1. Convener Breaking Boundaries-Unifying geosciences, IGC, New Delhi 2020

2. Convener Rocking Earth’s Future, YES, Berlin 2019

PUBLICATIONS

RESEARCH PAPERS Total 22

Journals 12

S. No. Paper Details Year Listed

in
Sambal P., Saradambal RS, Srivastava J., Dsouza N, Balakrishna K., Chauhan MM, Ali S.
1. (2022). Assessment of heavy metal pollution and human risk in the southeastern part 2022 WOS &
of Mahanadi River Delta, India. International Journal of Environmental Science and Scopus
Technology.
Sambal P., Saradambal RS, Srivastava J., Gurumurthy G.P., Chauhan MM, Ali S., Alam
2. M., Jena P., Shivam A., Bhushan R. (accepted). Precipitation and vegetation dynamics WOS &
2022
since 2600 years along the Mahanadi River Delta, East coast of India. The Holocene. Scopus
Singhla G., Ali S. et al. (2022) Geochemical evidence for the provenance, tectonic
3. settings and depositional environment during the Cambrian Series 2-Wuliuan WOS &
(Miaolingian) from the Kunzam La Formation in the Sumna Valley, Spiti, NW Himalaya 2022 Scopus
(Journal of Earth System Sciences).
4. Ali. S., Hathorne E. C., Frank M. (2021). Persistent South Asian Monsoon induced WOS &
erosion over the past 27 Myrs. Paleocenography, Plaeoclimatology Journal. 2021 Scopus
Ali S., Phartiyal B., Taloor A., Arif M., Singh B.P. (2021). Provenance, weathering and
5. paleoclimatic records of the Pliocene-Pleistocene sequences of the Himalayan 2021 WOS &
foreland basin, NW Himalaya. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. scopus

Farooquie A., Pillai S. K., Agnihotri D., Khan S., Tewari R., Shukla S., Ali S. et al. (2021).
6. Impact of climate on the evolution of vegetation in tectonically active Karewa basin 2021 WOS &
Scopus
Kashmir Himalaya. Journal of Earth System Science, 13093.
Taloor A.K., Kothyari G.C. Manhas D.. S., Bisht H., Mehta P., Sharma M., Mahajan S.,
2021 WOS &
Roy S., Singh A. K., Ali S. (2021). Spatio-temporal changes in the Machoi glacier Scopus
7. Zanskar Himalaya India using geospatial technology. Quaternary Science Advances,
4, 100031.
Taloor A.K., Pir R.A. Adimallah N. Ali S. et al. (2020). Spring water quality and
2020 WOS &
discharge assessment in the Basantar watershed of Jammu Himalaya using GIS and Scopus
8. water quality Index. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 10, 100364.

Ali S., Liu Z.F., Stattegger K., Khelifi, N., Kuhnt W. (2019). Paleoclimatic and
paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Tarfaya Atlantic coastal basin (Morocco) 2019 WOS &
9. Scopus
based on clay mineral records from Upper Cretaceous to Quaternary, Arabic Journal
of Geosciences, 12 (6).
Ali. S., Hathorne E. C., Frank M., Yirgaw D.G., Stattegger K., Stumpf R., Johnson J.E.,
2015 WOS &
Collett T.S., Giosan L. (2015). Indian Monsoon history over the past 60 kyr: recorded Scopus
10. by radiogenic isotopes and clay mineral assemblages in the Andaman Sea.
Ali S., Stattegger K., Garbe-Schönberg D., Frank M., Kraft S., Kuhnt W. (2014). The
2014 WOS &
provenance of Cretaceous to Quaternary sediments in the Tarfaya basin, SW Scopus
11. Morocco: Evidence from trace element geochemistry and radiogenic Nd-Sr
isotopes. Journal of African Earth Sciences 90, 64-76.
Ali S., Stattegger K., Garbe-Schönberg D., Kuhnt W., Kluth O., Jabour H. (2013).
Petrography and geochemistry of Cretaceous to Quaternary siliciclastic rocks in the 2013 WOS &
12. Scopus
Tarfaya Atlantic marginal basin, SW Morocco: implications for tectonic settings,
weathering and provenance. International Journal of Earth Sciences 103(1), 265-
280.
International/National Conference 10

S. No. Paper Details Year Listed

in
Sajid Ali, Mohd Munazir Chauhan, Anjum Farooqui, Salman Khan. Late Pliocene Peer
1. climatic control on sediment supply to the Karewa basin, Kashmir Valley, Western 2023 reviewed
Himalaya. ICES, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mohd Munazir Chauhan, Sajid Ali, Birender P. Singh. Chemical weathering record Peer
2. 2022
of the Himalayan foreland basin in response to changing monsoon climate during reviewed
the Late Miocene. AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, USA
Ishwar Chandra Rahi, Sajid Ali, Anupam Sharma, Vandana [Link]-Eocene Peer
3. Thermal Maximum continental sediments in the Barmer Basin, Rajasthan, India: A 2022 reviewed
record of enhanced precipitation in South Asian. Goldschmidth, Hawai, USA
4. Ali S., Hathorne E. C., Frank M., Miocene to recent chemical weathering in the Peer
Himalaya inferred from the stable Li-isotopes. Goldschmidth, France 2021
reviewed
Sajid Ali. Late Quaternary Indian monsoon records from Andaman Sea. YES 2019 Peer
5. Congress, Berlin, Germany reviewed
Ali S., Hathorne E. C., Frank M. Persistent South Indian monsoon induced Peer
6. 2018 reviewed
weathering over the past 27 million years. IISF, Lucknow
Ali S., Hathorne E. C., Frank M. Sunil K. Singh. South Indian monsoon records from Peer
7. 2016 reviewed
the Bay of Bengal during the past 27 million years. Goa, India
Ali, S., Stattegger, K., Garbe-Schonberg, D., Kuhnt, W., Kluth, O., Jabour, H. Peer
reviewed
Provenance, Tectonic Settings And Weathering Of The Siliciclastic Rocks From Lower 2012
8.
Cretaceous To Quaternary In The Tarfaya Basin, Sw Morocco
Ali, S., Stattegger, K., Garbe-Schonberg, D., Kuhnt, W., Kluth, O., Jabour, H. Peer
2011 reviewed
Provenance and Weathering of the Siliciclastic rocks In The Tarfaya Atlantic
9. Coastal Basin, SW Morocco. AAPG, Marrakech, Morocco
Ali, S., Stattegger, K., Garbe-Schonberg, D., Kuhnt, W., Kluth, O., Jabour, H. Peer
2010 reviewed
Provenance of Tertiary siliciclastic rocks in the Tarfaya-Laayoune Atlantic Coastal
10. Basin, SW Morocco. 18th IAS Sedimentological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina

Communicated 6
S. Paper Details Year Listed
No. in
Ali S., Hathorne E. C., Frank M. Miocene to recent chemical weathering in the
1. Himalaya inferred from the stable Li-isotopes (Geochemical Perspective Letters
journal).

Ali S., Hathorne E. C., Frank M., Singh S.K., Johnson J.E., Giosan L. Long-term
2. weathering history of the Andaman Sea clays linked to South Asian monsoon
(Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems).
3. Ali S., Farooquie A., Khan S. Late Pliocene climatic control on sediment supply to the
Karewa basin, Western Himalaya (Geochemistry Journal).
4. Chauhan M.M, Ali S., Singh B.P, Adlakha V., Phartiyal B. Chemical weathering record
of the Himalayan foreland basin in response to changing monsoon climate during
the Late Miocene. (P3 Journal).