Soumyajit Mukherjee, PhD, is a Professor of Geology at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He has been serving as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Earth Sciences. His research and editorial experience span 14 years and he has authored and edited 16 books and special volumes. He has been a guest researcher at the Hans Ramberg Tectonic Lab, Uppsala University in 2005-2006. He is the Series Editor of the Elsevier book series Developments in Structural Geology and Tectonics.