Rate My Professor Vijay Anand Sundarrajan

Dr. Vijay Anand Sundarrajan is a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Sciences at Curtin University Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering and Science, specializing in Applied Geology. He holds an MPhil and a PhD from Pondicherry University in mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, fluid inclusions in ore deposits, and isotope geochemistry, completed between 2006 and 2013. After his PhD, he undertook a postdoctoral position at Zhejiang University, Department of Earth Sciences, Hangzhou, China, from 2013 to 2015. He then served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Eritrea Institute of Technology from 2016 to 2020 before joining Curtin University Malaysia as Lecturer in July 2021. His research specializations include mineralogy and geochemistry, petrology, global gold deposits, geofluids, ore minerals, and spectroscopic studies of mineral deposits, utilizing techniques such as fluid inclusion analysis, EPR spectroscopy, Rb-Sr, and Sm-Nd isotope geochemistry. Notable awards and honors encompass Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Best Mentor Award and Best Supporter for Curtin Malaysia Student Learning Awards 2023, Curtin Malaysia Teaching Support Award 2023, Students' Choice Award for Best Teaching 2022, CMRI-CRS Grant for the Tawau Gold deposit study, Early Career Researchers Startup Fund 2021, China Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2013-2015), and various DST fellowships (2008-2013).

Key publications include 'Evidence of fluid boiling for the Li-Rb-F-W rich vein rocks of Degana, Rajasthan, NW India' (Earth Science Research Journal, 2025), 'Micron to Nano Au Particles Incorporation in Different Stages of Pyrite, in Bau, Sarawak, Malaysia' (Indonesian Journal on Geoscience, 2025), 'Fluid inclusion and EPR spectroscopic study of Ta-Nb mineralization in Kadavur, Tamil Nadu, India' (Current Science Journal, 2024), 'Petrogenesis of S-type Ladakh granite and mafic microgranular enclaves in the southern margin of Ladakh batholith' (Island Arc, 2024), 'Geological, geochemical and Rb-Sr isotopic studies on tungsten mineralised Sewariya-Govindgarh Granites of Delhi Fold Belt, Rajasthan, NW India' (Journal of Earth System Science, 2019), 'Fluid inclusion, geochemical, Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd isotope studies on tungsten mineralized Degana and Balda granites of the Aravalli craton, NW India' (Journal of Earth System Science, 2018), and 'Invisible gold distribution on pyrite and ore-forming fluid process of the Huangshan orogenic-type gold deposit of Zhejiang, SE China' (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2017). His research has enhanced insights into ore-forming processes and mineralization mechanisms in tungsten, gold, and rare-metal deposits worldwide.