Debjeet Pathak

Published/ In press/ Accepted 

1. Pathak, D., & Dasgupta, R. (2025).The existing frameworks of delivery of major volatiles and the feasibility of Mars-mass embryos as the major volatile contributors to the Bulk Silicate Earth. Astrobiology. (accepted)

2. Dasgupta, R., Pathak, D., & Maurice, M. (2024). A framework for the origin and deep cycles of volatiles in rocky exoplanets. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 90(1), 323-373.

3. Pathak, D., & Dasgupta, R. (2024). Nitrogen inventory of iron meteorite parent bodies constrained by nitrogen partitioning between Fe-rich solid and liquid alloys. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 371, 199-213.

In preparation

1. Pathak, D., Dasgupta, R., Iyer, N. (202x) Nitrogen-Phosphorus Systematics in Iron Meteorites: Insights into Parent Body Evolution (in prep)

2. Pathak, D., Dasgupta, R., Plaza, K., Iyer, N. (202x) Nitrogen partitioning between Fe-carbide and liquid alloy: Insights into the C/N ratio of planetary cores (in prep)

3. Pathak, D., Dasgupta, R., Plaza K., Iyer, N. (202x) Nitrogen partitioning among Fe-rich, S-rich, and P-rich liquid alloys: Implications for nitrogen stratification in small planetary cores (in prep)

4. Marchi, S., Canup, R., Pathak, D., Dasgupta, R. (202x) Earth accretion of C, N, and S via late accretion collisions. (in prep)

1. Pathak, D., & Dasgupta, R. The feasibility of Mars-mass planetary embryos as the major volatile contributors to the Bulk Silicate Earth. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (03/2025) [POSTER]

2. Pathak, D., Dasgupta, R., Iyer, N., Phosphorus/Nitrogen systematics of iron meteorites as a probe to the volatile evolution of the earliest formed solar system planetesimals. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (12/2024) [POSTER]

3. Marchi, S., Canup, R., Pathak, D., Dasgupta, R. Earth accretion of C, N, and S via late accretion collisions. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (12/2024) [ORAL]

4. Pathak, D., Izidoro, A., Dasgupta, R. Last Giant Impact delivery of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur to Silicate Earth: Implications for the volatile budget of Proto-Earth and Theia. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (12/2023) [POSTER]

5. Pathak, D., & Dasgupta, R. Nitrogen inventory of iron meteorite parent bodies constrained by nitrogen partitioning between Fe-rich solid and liquid alloys. Texas Area Planetary Science Conference (08/2023) [POSTER]

6. Pathak, D., & Dasgupta, R. Nitrogen partitioning between solid and Fe-rich liquid alloys: Implications for the fate of N during differentiation of iron meteorite parent bodies and inner core crystallization of other rocky Solar System objects. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (12/2022) [ORAL]

• Lecturer for EEPS 116 – The Earth and the Solar System, Spring 2024, Rice University.
• Mentored Katherine Plaza (Undergraduate from Dartmouth College) from May 2023 to July 2023.
• Mentored Naidhruv Iyer (Undergraduate from Rice University) from February 2024 to July 2024.

• IIT JAM 2019 - Qualified
• CSIR UGC NET 2020 - Qualified
• GATE 2020 - Qualified
• 2021 Worden Fellowship – Awarded among all the incoming students of the Natural Science departments of Rice University.
• 2024 - The Torkild Rieber Award in Geology 2023-2024