Prof. Andre Droxler

Scholar-in-Residence

Prof. Droxler, currently a Scholar-in-Residence at IIT Gandhinagar, served as a faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA, for 33 years, retiring in 2020 as a full professor. He currently holds the title of Emeritus Professor at Rice and continues to be actively involved in research as a visiting professor at Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Brazil, as well as IFREMER and Pierre and Marie Curie University in France. As a Fulbright Fellow, he served as an invited professor at the Maldives National University in Malé in 2023. His previous roles at Rice included Director of the Professional Master’s Program in Sub-surface Geology and Director of the Center for the Study of Environment & Society. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America since 2018. Prof. Droxler received his Master’s degree from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and earned his Ph.D. in Marine Geology from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), University of Miami, USA, focusing on Late Quaternary glacial cycles in the Bahamian deep basins. His research interests include the evolution through time of Cenozoic carbonate platforms, formation of Quaternary barrier reefs and atolls, and paleo-oceanographic, climatic, and sea level reconstructions, as well as ancient reef systems such as Late Cambrian microbial buildups in Central Texas.