ACADEMY NEWS
Indian Academy of Sciences elects new Fellows – 2015
Javed N. Agrewala, CSIR-Institute of Shantanu Chowdhury, CSIR-Institute D. K. Ojha, Tata Institute of Fundamen- Microbial Technology, Chandigarh of Genomics and Integrative Biology, tal Research, Mumbai Area: Immunology, vaccine, drug dis- Delhi Area: Star formation and interstellar me- covery. Area: Structural and molecular biology, dium, infrared astronomy, astronomical genomics. instrumentation. A. C. Anil, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa Pallab Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Tanmaya Pathak, Indian Institute of Area: Biological oceanography, marine Technology, Kharagpur Technology, Kharagpur ecology, marine biology. Area: Electronic design automation, arti- Area: Synthetic organic chemistry, nu- ficial intelligence, formal methods. cleoside and carbohydrate modification, Siva R. Athreya, Indian Statistical Insti- enzyme inhibition. tute, Bangalore Debabrata Dash, Banaras Hindu Uni- Area: Probability theory. versity, Varanasi A. R. Podile, University of Hyderabad, Area: Cell biology, signal transduction, Hyderabad Arindam Banerjee, Indian Association nanobiotechnology. Area: Molecular plant microbe interac- for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata tions, microbial biotechnology. Area: Molecular assembly, soft materials Anuradha Dube, CSIR-Central Drug and hybrid nanomaterials, bio-organic Research Institute, Lucknow B. L. V. Prasad, CSIR-National Che- chemistry. Area: Parasite (Leishmania), immunobi- mical Laboratory, Pune ology, drug discovery, model develop- Area: Materials chemistry, self- Sharmila A. Bapat, National Centre for ment. assembly, nanoparticle synthesis. Cell Science, Pune Area: Cancer stem cells, epithelial– Arindam Ghosh, Indian Institute of Sci- K. R. Prasad, Indian Institute of Sci- mesenchymal transitions. ence, Bangalore ence, Bangalore Area: Experimental condensed matter Area: Organic synthesis, total synthesis Nita Bhandari, Society for Applied physics, semiconductor physics, nano- of natural products. Studies, New Delhi device technology. Area: Nutrition-infection interaction, M. Ravikanth, Indian Institute of Tech- child health, nutritional interventions, Debashish Goswami, Indian Statistical nology, Mumbai clinical evaluation of vaccine. Institute, Kolkata Area: Supramolecular chemistry, co- Area: Noncommutative geometry, quan- ordination chemistry, photochemistry. Alok Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru tum groups, operator algebra. University, New Delhi N. Ravishankar, Indian Institute of Sci- Area: Molecular parasitology, computa- Rama Kant, University of Delhi, Delhi ence, Bangalore tional genomics. Area: Complex systems in electrochem- Area: Nanomaterials, electron micro- istry and polymers, theoretical chemistry, scopy, energy applications. Gautam Bhattacharyya, Saha Institute nanoelectrochemistry. of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata V. V. S. S. Sarma, CSIR-National Insti- Area: Particle physics phenomenology. Avinash Khare, University of Delhi, tute of Oceanography, Visakhapatnam Delhi Area: Biogeochemistry, stable isotopes, Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute Area: Plasma physics, statistical mechan- remote sensing. of Technology, Mumbai ics, critical phenomena, plasma astro- Area: Web search and mining, graph in- physics. K. Thangaraj, CSIR-Centre for Cellular formation retrieval. and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad Anjan Kundu, Saha Institute of Nuclear Area: Population genetics, evolutionary Tapas Chakraborty, Indian Association Physics, Kolkata biology, clinical and medical genetics, for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata Area: Theoretical and mathematical ancient DNA and forensic genetics.
Area: Vibrational and electronic spec- physics, nonlinear classical and quantum Kaushal Verma, Indian Institute of Sci- troscopy, cold molecules and clusters, integrable systems, field models with ence, Bangalore mass spectroscopy. topological charges. Area: Complex analysis.
A. Chockalingam, Indian Institute of Gobinda Majumder, Tata Institute of Honorary Fellow Science, Bangalore Fundamental Research, Mumbai Area: Wireless communications, wireless Area: Calorimeter, B-physics and CP- Andre K. Geim, University of Manches- networking. violation, electroweak physics at collider. ter, Manchester, UK
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