Dr. Satyabrata Behera holds the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology, Ravenshaw University. He has done his doctoral research in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT Kharagpur and obtained his PhD degree in 2022. During his doctoral program, Dr. Behera worked on a challenging area of mineral exploration, taking two important gold localities (Sonakhan and Hutti) in India as case studies. He has acquired state-of-the-art expertise in computerized mineral exploration that involved a strong command over the Geographic Information System on which many of the soft computing tools are routinely implemented. In addition, he has acquired state-of-the-art skills in spatial data analysis, satellite image processing and integration of multidisciplinary geoscience data (geological, geochemical, geophysical & remote sensing) in his gold prospectivity modelling work. Dr. Behera has published the results of his research in reputed international journals in the field of mineral exploration, an area in which there is a rare contribution from academia. Furthermore, he has served as a Teaching Assistant in two MHRD sponsored MOOC projects for the NPTEL (SWAYAM) courses “Mineral Resources: Geology, Exploration, Economics and Environment” and “Fluid Inclusion in Mineral Principles, Methodology, Practice and Application” at IIT Kharagpur. Essentially, Dr. Behera is a trained Economic Geologist and Exploration Geoscientist with adequate knowledge on economic aspects of ore deposits, methodologies and practices of ore deposit evaluation with a good knowledge on Geostatistics that he routinely applies in his work. His research mainly focuses on developing effective approaches to improve the exploration effort for precious, essential, critical and strategic minerals in our country.