Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sudipta Sasmal | Institute of Astronomy Space and Earth Science | India
Dr. Sudipta Sasmal is an accomplished physicist with more than 18 years of research experience in Space and Atmospheric Sciences, specializing in the complex interactions between the near-Earth space environment and the atmosphere. He currently serves as Associate Professor and Co-Founder of the Institute of Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences (IASES), and is the Principal Investigator of the Space Technology and Atmospheric Research Laboratory (STARLaB). His research expertise spans ionospheric dynamics, low-frequency radio wave propagation, solar–terrestrial coupling, atmospheric wave processes, electromagnetic interactions, lightning physics, and Lithosphere–Atmosphere–Ionosphere (LAI) coupling mechanisms. Dr. Sasmal has contributed extensively to space weather monitoring and ionospheric remote sensing using GNSS-TEC, VLF/ELF/ULF instrumentation, satellite datasets (Swarm, COSMIC, SABER, MODIS, ERA5), and lightning detection networks including WWLLN, BOLTEK, and ILDN. He has played a leading role in developing scientific instrumentation, sensor networks, and field experiments across India, Antarctica, and international research stations. His significant Antarctic research includes installing multiple VLF systems at Maitri and Bharati stations and conducting cosmic-ray experiments along polar transit routes. He has established STARLaB at IASES, built VLF observation networks in India and Japan, and contributed to developing advanced ionospheric laboratories and observatories. As Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator, he has led several national and international funded projects from agencies such as MoES, SERB-DST, DST-JSPS, and the Government of West Bengal. Dr. Sasmal serves as Visiting Professor at the University of Electro-Communications (Japan) and Visiting Scientist at the University of West Attica (Greece). Recognized as a Ph.D. supervisor by multiple universities, he has supervised several doctoral researchers who now hold prestigious postdoctoral positions. He actively teaches astrophysics, space physics, and data-driven atmospheric modeling at multiple academic institutions.
Featured Publications
Nanda, K., Sasmal, S., Hayakawa, M., Solovieva, M., Kopylova, G., & Potirakis, S. M. (2025). Towards understanding earthquake preparatory dynamics: A multi-parametric investigation of the 2025 Kamchatka Mw 8.8 event. Atmosphere, 16(12), 1328. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16121328
Bhaskar, D., Tripathi, R., Shrivastava, M. N., Singh, R., Sasmal, S., Datta, A., & Maurya, A. K. (2025). Lower ionospheric perturbations associated with lightning activity over low and equatorial regions. Atmosphere, 16(7), 832. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16070832
Borchevkina, O. P., Timchenko, A. V., Bessarab, F. S., Kurdyaeva, Y. A., Karpov, I. V., Yakimova, G. A., Golubkov, M. G., Stepanov, I. G., Sasmal, S., & Dmitriev, A. V. (2025). Regional total electron content disturbance during a meteorological storm. Atmosphere, 16(6), 690. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16060690
Pal, S. K., Sarkar, S., Nanda, K., Sanyal, A., Brawar, B., Datta, A., Potirakis, S. M., Maurya, A. K., Bhattacharya, A., Panchadhyayee, P., et al. (2025). Global response of vertical total electron content to Mother’s Day G5 geomagnetic storm of May 2024: Insights from IGS and GIM observations. Atmosphere, 16(5), 529. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16050529
Nanda, K., Sasmal, S., Hazra, R., Datta, A., Panchadhyayee, P., & Potirakis, S. M. (2025). Study on the distribution of gravity wave (GW) activity in six Bay of Bengal tropical cyclones. Atmosphere, 16(2), 235. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16020235