Academic Experience

As a geodynamicist, I’m interested in modelling the Earth’s mantle to understand how changes in the chemcical heterogeity affect Earth’s evolution over billions of years. My work focusses on the heterogenity introduced at subduction zones such as volatiles and the oceanic crust.

Publications

Dannberg, J., Chotalia, K., and Gassmöller, R., 2023. How lowermost mantle viscosity controls the chemical structure of Earth’s deep interior.

Chotalia, K., Brodholt, J. and Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., 2023. Surface exposure constraints on the mantle water budget. Geology.

Crameri, F., Magni, V., Domeier, M., Shephard, G.E., Chotalia, K., Cooper, G., Eakin, C.M., Grima, A.G., Gürer, D., Király, Á. and Mulyukova, E., 2020. A transdisciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation. Nat. Commun. 11, 1–14.

Chotalia, K., Cagney, N., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C. and Brodholt, J., 2020. The coupled effects of mantle mixing and a water-dependent viscosity on the surface ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 530, p.115881.

Theses

Chotalia, K.R., 2020. The effects of water content on mantle circulation, geochemical cycles and surface observables (Doctoral dissertation, UCL (University College London)).

Chotalia, K.R., 2015. Shallow mantle plume sources from plume shearing (MSci Independent Project, UCL (University College London)).