Geophotonics: Tracing Landscapes Through Time - Inaugural lecture by Mayank Jain

Earth surface processes shape landscapes, disperse nutrients, and influence climate and ecosystems.

Quantifying the rates of these processes is fundamental to understanding and predicting landscape evolution, yet measuring them across decadal to millennial time scales remains a major challenge.

This inaugural lecture will highlight the potential of luminescence physics to provide unprecedented quantitative measurements of Earth surface process rates through a new understanding of the charge transport mechanisms that record these rates in natural minerals.

Mayank Jain is a newly appointed Professor of Luminescence Physics and Applications in Earth Sciences.

He holds an MSc degree in Applied Geology (1995) and a PhD in interdisciplinary Quaternary research (2001) from University of Delhi.

Mayank has pioneered several breakthroughs in luminescence geochronology and solid-state dosimetry, advancing the field through fundamental research on optically active defects in crystals, innovative instrumentation, and charge transport modelling.

The full lecture announcement can be accessed here.