Dr. Sanjeet Kumar Verma

Research Interests

Dr. Sanjeet Kumar Verma obtained his PhD in Engineering (Geochemistry and Igneous Petrology) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 2009 to 2012, graduating with honors and receiving the Alfonso Caso Medal for his dissertation on "New Discrimination and Classification Diagrams for Igneous Rocks and Their Application to Geothermal Fields." He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Campinas, Brazil, from 2012 to 2015. He joined the Applied Geosciences Division of the Potosino Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, AC (IPICYT) as a Researcher in 2015, where he is currently Head of the Applied Geosciences Division and a tenured Senior Researcher (Level C) and Level II in the National System of Researchers. He also served as academic coordinator from 2019 to 2022. His research focuses on four main areas related to igneous petrology: i) rock geochemistry (geochemical modeling and analytical geochemistry), ii) petrogenesis (origin and evolution of magma), iii) discrimination of tectonic environments, and iv) geochronology (identifying the age of rocks). His main contributions focus on the San Luis Potosí Volcanic Field (CVSLP), where rocks contain topaz, a precious mineral of great economic value. This explains why these topaz minerals occur only in the San Luis Potosí Volcanic Field (SLPVF) and not in other parts of Mexico. He also works on X-ray fluorescence calibration using uncertainty-weighted least squares linear regression. He is an Associate Editor of the Elsevier journal "Geochemistry" (JCR FI 2.6). He has been a Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2017. He was awarded the Newton Advanced Fellowship by The Royal Society, England, in 2016. It should be noted that the Newton Advanced Fellowship is a highly prestigious award granted to only a few researchers worldwide. He won the 2021 Potosino Prize for Scientific and Technological Research in the Young Researcher category . He is the author of 60 JCR-indexed publications, 5 book chapters from international publishers, 1 book from Springer Nature, and has presented over 17 extensive papers at international conferences, 2 at national conferences, and 4 articles. In his outreach work, he has given more than 15 seminars and more than 24 postgraduate courses at the DGA/IPICYT on Igneous Petrology and Geochemistry. His work has over 1500 bibliographic citations; he has an H-index of 22. He has supervised 6 undergraduate theses, 7 master's theses, 4 doctoral dissertations and 1 postdoctoral research project (3 doctoral, and 3 master's research projects are in progress). He is a reviewer for recognized journals with an annual review rate of 19, has organized international courses, and has participated in scientific committees of conferences.