Originally from Bengaluru, India, Kaustubh joined the Department of Geosciences as an assistant professor in Fall 2019 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University. Prior to that, Kaustubh was at the University of Texas at Austin where he completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees; he also has a B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka.
Research Interests: paleoceanographic dynamics, foraminiferal geochemistry, monsoons, ENSO, marine paleoecology
Personal Interests: birding, heavy music, photography
Email: kaustubh@arizona.edu