Dr. Runa Antony
Function and Responsibilities:
I am a Scientist working on the storage and fate of organic matter, especially particulate organic matter on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet as part of the ERC Synergy Grant Deep Purple project.
Research Interests:
Carbon cycling in glacier environments
Polar Biogeochemistry
Microbial Ecology
Career:
2019 Scientist D, ESSO-National Centre for Polar & Ocean Research (formerly NCAOR), Goa, India
2015 Scientist C, ESSO-National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Research, Goa, India
2011 Scientist B, ESSO-National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Research, Goa, India
2008 Research Scientist B, ESSO-National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Research, Goa, India
2006 Project Assistant III, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
Education:
2016 Ph.D. Marine Science, Goa University, India
2006 M. Sc. Microbiology, Bharathiar University, India
2004 B. Sc. Microbiology, Goa University, India
Projects:
2024 PI of AWIPEV grant for the project ‘Seasonal Impact on Geochemical Nutrient cycling and microbiAL processes (SIGNAL)’
2022 Co-I of GFZ Innovative Research Expedition Grant 2023
2022 PI of Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR) Facility grant at the National High Field Magnetic Laboratory, Florida State University, USA for the project ‘Development of analytical approaches to characterize particulate organic matter in glaciers’
2022 Co-I of FRozen Organic MAtter Cycling in Glacial Environments (FROMAGE) project supported by the German Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the French Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor (IPEV) to carry out research in Ny-Ålesund at the joint French-German Arctic Research Base AWIPEV.
2021 PI of Humboldt Research Fellowship project ‘Storage, dynamics, and the fate of organic carbon on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet’ by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
2020 PI of the Women in Excellence project ‘Dynamics and export of organic carbon from the Antarctic Ice Sheet’ funded by the Science & Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India.
2019 Co-PI of the Polar Science and Cryosphere (PACER) project ‘Understanding the networking of active metabolic pathways in indigenous microbial communities for maintaining major biogeochemical cycles in oligotrophic glacier environments’ funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, India.
2016 Co-PI of the Indo-Norwegian research project MADICE funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, India, and Research Council Norway.
Awards:
2021 Humboldt Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2020 SERB-Women Excellence Award by the Science and Engineering Research Board, India
2019 Young Researcher Award by the Ministry of Earth Science, India
2017 Elected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences
2016 Early Career Researcher support by PAGES (Past Global Changes) Office, Switzerland
2014 Certificate of Merit for outstanding contribution in Polar Sciences by Ministry of Earth Sciences, India
2011 SCAR fellowship by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom