Name: Dr.S.Suresh Kumar Pillai
Post : Scientist-C
E- mail: suresh_pillai2000@rediffmail.com
FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION
12 years research experience in Megafloristic study on Permain Megafossils of India.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
 Engaged with the Institute projects and have an expertise on the morphotaxonomical
analysis, identification and comparison of plant fossils collected from various Lower
Gondwana Basins of India and in particular from the Rawanwara Area of Pench Valley
Coalfield, Satpura Gondwana Basin, Central India.
 I was awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Botany from Lucknow University. The title of my
Ph.D. was “Study towards the knowledge of Glossopteris flora of India”.
 Apart from this, I am working on palaeozoic Palynology (miospore and megaspore).
 Attended national and international conferences.
At present working on three projects:
 Palaeobotanical investigation of central India (Satpura Gondwana basin) to analyse the floristic
succession, evolutionary perspectives, biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment.(Self project)
 Palaeobotanical investigations from Johilla and Sohagpur coalfields, South Rewa Gondwana
Basin: Basinal Correlation, evolutionary, biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications
(Member of project).
 Mega- and microfloristics of the Permo-Carboniferous sediments of Kashmir region:
Evolutionary, biostratigraphical, palaeoecological and palaeophytogeographical implications
(Member of project).
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
1. Oral Presentation of paper entitled as “Plant fossil from Rawanwara Area of Pench
Valley Coalfield, Satpura Gondwana Basin, M.P”. XXV Annual Convection of Indian
Association of Sedimentologists and National Seminar on Sedimentary Basins of
India: Their Geological Significance and Economic Prospects Maharaja Sayajirao
University of Baroda. Vadodara, December 2008.
2. Poster presentations entitled as “Morphotypes of Noeggerathiopsis- Leaves from
Pench Valley Coalfield, Satpura Gondwana Basin, M.P., Plant Life through Ages,
BSIP, Lucknow (2008).
3. Poster presentations entitled as “Permian Megaspores from Kuraloi Area, Ib-River
Coalfield, Mahanadi Basin, Orissa. Plant Life through Ages, BSIP, Lucknow (2008).
4. Oral Presentation of paper entitled as “Plant fossil from Rawanwara Area of Pench
Valley Coalfield, Satpura Gondwana Basin, M.P”. XXII Congresso Brasileiro De
Paleontologia 2011- Natal, Brazil.
5. Oral Presentation of paper entitled “Glossopteris flora from Rawanwara area of
Pench Valley Coalfield, Satpura Gondwana Basin, Central India, (Special reference to
Cheirophyllum maithyi sp. nov. and Noeggerathiopsis leaves)” at XV Simposio
Argentino De Paleobotinica Y Palinologia II Simposio Argentino De
Melisopalinologia from 10 to 13 July 2012 at Corrienties, Argentina (Special invited
Lecture).
6. Participated in Professional Course in Geology at Department of Geology, Lucknow
University, Lucknow
7. In-house Training Programme on Geological Software, Usage of Mapping Software,
GPS and related gadgets at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow
8. Training on Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy at Birbal Sahni Institute of
Palaeobotany, Lucknow
MEMBERSHIP
a) Member of the Palaeobotanical Society.
b) Life member of The Paleontological Society of India.
EDUCATION
 M.Sc., Ph.D from Lucknow University (2011).
FIELD EXPERIENCE
Extensive field experience of geological excursions undertaken for collection of plant
megafossils and rock samples for recovery of palynomorphs throughout India viz.
Satpura Gondwana Basin, Wardha -Godavari Basin, Kashmir and adjoining areas and Talchir
Coalfield.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
1.
Pillai SSK (2012). Cheirophyllum maithyi sp. nov. from the Early Permian of Pench
Valley Coalfield, Satpura Gondwana Basin, India. Palaeobotanist, 61: 139-143.
2.
Tewari R, Mehrotra NC, Pillai SSK, Pandita S K and Agnihotri D.(2012).
Gymnospermous seeds from the Barakar Formation of Umrer Coalfield, Wardha Basin,
Maharashtra. Palaeobotanist, 61: 123-130.
3.
Tewari R., Pandita S.K., Agnihotri D., Pillai S.S.K. and Bernardes Mary E.C. (2012). An
Early Permian Glossopteris flora from the Umrer Coalfield, Wardha Basin, Maharastra,
India. Alcheringa, 36: 355-371.
4.
Pillai S.S.K (2011). Glossopteris flora from Rawanwara area of Pench Valley Coalfield,
Satpura Gondwana Basin, Central India. Paleontologia: Cenarios de Vida, Vol.4: 69-80.
5.
Meena K.L. and Pillai S.S.K. (2011). Palynodating of sub-surface sediments from
Kuraloi block, Ib-river Coalfield, Jharsuguda, Orissa, Son-Mahanadi Graben, India.
Palaeobotanist, 60:335-343.
6.
Tewari R. and Pillai S.S.K. (2011). An evaluation of the Late Palaeozoic flora of India.
Paleontologia: Cenarios de Vida.4: 33-44.
7.
Tewari Rajni, Mehrotra Naresh C., Meena K. L., Pillai S.S.K. (2009). Permian
Megaspores from Kuraloi Area, Ib-River Coalfield, Mahanadi Basin, Orissa. Journal of
Geological Society of India, 74(6): 669-678.
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9.
Brahman M. Pillai S.S.K., Pati U.K.(1997). Influence of rubber (Hevea brasilensis) tree
shade on growth performance and seeds yield of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) intercrop,
Indian Journal of Forestry, 20(2): 181-182.