NISER

PhD. (2006-2009), Institute for Planetology, University of Muenster, Germany

M.Sc. in Geological Sciences (2004-2006), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

B.Sc.  (Geology (Hons), Physics, Chemistry) (2001-2004) Dharanidhar College, North Orissa University

Professional Experience:

11.2020-04.2022: Scientist at Institute for Materials Research, X-ray Imaging with Synchrotron Radiation, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (Outstation DESY), Hamburg, Germany

09.2018-10.2020: Research Associate at Electron Microscopy Unit, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

08.2017-07.2018: Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Space Research & Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland

09.2013-03.2017: Postdoctoral Research Scientist at The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA and External Postdoctoral Researcher at Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry (C3), Department of Geophysical Sciences, Unviersity of Chicago

08.2009-09.2013: Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute for Planetology, University of Muenster, Germany

Cosmochemistry and Meteorites

Electron Microscopy

03.2022: Beamtime for P03 Beamline PETRA III, DESY for Synchrotron Nano-XRD Experiment

04.2014-09.2015: Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

02.2014-03.2017: External User at Electron and X-ray Microscopy Center, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA

01.2014-03.2017: External Postdoctoral Researcher, Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry (C3), University of Chicago, USA

09.2009: Awarded "Suma Cum Laude" in PhD degree from the Institute for Planetology, University of Muenster, Germany

07.2009: Travel Grant for the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Nancy, France

07.2007: Travel Grant for the Kobe International School of Planetary Sciences 2007

07.2006: Schlumberger Asia Fellowship for M.Tech in Applied Geology at IIT Bombay

Selected Publications:

• Rout, S. S., and Bischoff, A. (2008). Ca,Al-rich inclusions in Rumuruti (R) chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 1439-1464.
• Rout, S. S., Bischoff, A., Nagashima K., Krot A. N., Huss G. R. and Keil K. (2009). Oxygen- and magnesium- isotope composition of Ca,Al-rich inclusions from Rumuruti (R) chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 4264-4287.
• Moroz, L. V., Basilevsky, A. T., Hiroi, T., Rout, S. S., Baither, D., van der Bogert, C. H., Yakovlev, O. I., Fisenko, A. V., Semjonova, L. F., Rusakov, V. S., Khramov, D. A., Zinovieva, N. G., Arnold, G., Pieters, C. M. (2009). Spectral properties of simulated impact glasses produced from martian soil analogue JSC Mars-1. Icarus 202, 336-353.
• Rout, S. S., Keil, K., and Bischoff, A. (2010). Bulk chemical composition of Al-rich objects in Rumuruti (R) chondrites: Implications for their origin. Chemie der Erde 70, 35-53.
• Moroz, L.V., Starukhina, L.V., Rout, S.S., Sasaki, S., Helbert, J., Leroux, H., Baither, D., Bischoff, A., and Hiesinger, H. (2014). Space weathering of silicate regolith with various FeO contents:  New insights from laser irradiation experiments and simulations of theoretical spectra.  Icarus 235, 187-206.
• Heck, H. R., Schmitz, B., Bottke, W. F., Rout, S. S., Kita, N. T., Cronholm, A., Defouilloy, C., Dronov, A., and Terfelt, F., (2017). Rare meteorites common in the Ordovician period. Nature Astronomy 1: 0035.
• Rout, S. S., Heck, P. R., Ishii, T., Zaluzec, N., Wen, J., Miller, D., and Schmitz, B. (2017). Shocked chromites in fossil L chondrite meteorite: A Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy study. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 1776-1796.
• Schmitz, B., Heck, P. R., Alvarez, W., Kita, N. T., Rout, S. S., Cronholm, A., Defouilloy, C., Martin, E., Smit, J. and Terfelt, F. (2017). The meteorite flux to Earth in the Early Cretaceous as reconstructed from sediment-dispersed extraterrestrial spinels. Geology 45, 807-810.
• Rout, S. S., Heck, P. R., Isheim, D., Stephan, T., Zaluzec, N. J., Miller, D. J., Davis, A. M., and Seidman, D. (2017). Atom-Probe Tomography and transmission electron microscopy of the kamacite-taenite interface in the Bristol IVA iron meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 2707-2729.
• Rout, S. S., Heck, P. R., Zaluzec, N. J., Isheim, D., Miller, D. J., and Seidman, D. (2018). Adhesive-based atom-probe sample preparation. Microscopy Today 26 (Issue 2), 24-31.
• Rout, S. S., Heck, P. R., and Schmitz, B. (2018). Shock history of fossil ungrouped achondrite Österplana 065: Raman spectroscopy and TEM study of relict chrome-spinel grains. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53, 973-983.
• Riedo, A., Rout, S. S., Wiesendanger, R., Wurz, P. and Leya, I. (2018). EGT – A sensitive time-of-flight mass spectrometer for multi-element isotope gas analysis. Journal of Mass Spectrometry 53, 1036-1045. 
• Greer J., Rout S. S., Isheim D., Seidman D. N., Wieler R. and Heck P. R. (2020). Atom probe tomography of space-weathered lunar ilmenite grain surfaces. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 55, 426-440.
• Manohar C., Vaidhyanathan K. G., Rout S. S., Ritter M., Störmer M., Petrov A. Y. and Eich M. (2020). Thermal stability of tungsten based metamaterial emitter under vacuum and inert gas conditions. Scientific Reports 10, 3605.
• Vaidhyanathan K. G., Manohar C., Rout S. S., Furlan K. P., Krekeler T., Ritter M., Becker H-W., Petrov A. Y., Eich M. and Störmer M. (2021). Structural degradation of tungsten sandwiched in hafnia layers determined by in-situ XRD up to 1520ºC. Scientific Reports 11, 3330.
• Krekeler T., Rout S. S., Störmer M., Arya M., Ganguly A., Vaidhyanathan K. G., Sutherland D. S., Bozhevolnyi S. I., Ritter M., Petersen K., Petrov A. Y., Eich M. and Manohar C. (2021). Unprecedented thermal stability of plasmonic titanium nitride films up to 1400 °C. Advanced Optical Materials 9, 2100323.

Cosmochemistry & Meteorite Studies

Laboratory Simulations of Space Weathering and Surface Composition of Asteroids and Planetary Bodies

Nanometer Scale and Analytical Studies of Extraterrestrial Samples (e.g. SEM-FIB, TEM, Atom-Probe Tomography, SIMS)

Fossil Meteorites and Micrometeorites

PhDs: 

(a) Swarna Prava Das

(b) Subhasmita Swain

(c) Sowmya Bhowmick

EP654 – ‘Geochemistry & Geochronology’

EP641 – ‘Practical Course and Field Work’

EPS-101