Akshat Agarwal
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Earth Sciences @
IISER Pune & IPGP Paris

Academic Research

A summary of my research work in Earth Sciences.

Present

Lithosphere Structure in Tibet

May 2026-Present | Supervised by Dr. Ajay Kumar

Evaluating contradicting lithospheric models through an automated Python pipeline. I clip global tomography datasets, override shallow crustal densities with CRUST1.0, and run instantaneous Stokes flow solves in ASPECT.

Past

Joint Inversion Modeling

May 2025-November 2025 | Supervised by Dr. Ajay Kumar

Integrated a Gravity Anomaly module into the BayHunter MCMC framework. By using a non-linear empirical relationship for Vp and Vs, the goal was to iterate density parameters directly into surface wave and receiver function inversions.

Ambient Noise Tomography

January-April 2025 | Supervised by Dr. Arjun Datta

Processed passive seismic data from wireless campus geophones. By stacking cross-correlations and analyzing azimuth energy distributions, we mapped local surface velocities and traced primary noise to ongoing traffic.

Irshalwadi Landslide Simulation

May-July 2024 | Supervised by Dr. Argha Banerjee

Simulated the devastating 2023 Irshalwadi landslide using RAMMS DebrisFlow. Utilized pre-event DEM scaling and Google Earth imagery to accurately derive the local Voellmy friction parameters (µ and ξ) and flow velocities.