Speaker: Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
Homi Bhabha Chair Professor
Energy, Environment, and Climate Change Programme, NIAS
Chairperson: D Suba Chandran, Professor and Dean, School of Conflict and Security Studies, NIAS
06 April 2022, 1600 hrs, Lecture Hall, NIAS
Abstract
We discuss unprecedented global threats to international collaborations, which have started making pioneering contributions to frontier areas of sciences, with some examples. The war in Ukraine has already claimed several thousand lives, injured many more, and turned about 3 million people into refugees. We feel saddened that the recent crisis in Ukraine has led to the exclusion of Russian scientists from most of these collaborations, which is seriously impacting our march on the road to discoveries. Even more puzzling is the decision of several journals not to publish or consider for publication papers from Russian scientists. We ask the question: how do we proceed in these situations?
About the speaker
Prof Dinesh Kumar Srivastava is Homi Bhabha Chair Professor in the Energy, Environment, and Climate Change Programme. He has held many distinguished positions in the past, such as Director and Distinguished Scientist in Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata; DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow; Honorary Professor, Amity University, NOIDA; and Emeritus Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute. Prof Srivastava started his career as Scientific Officer at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1971 and moved to the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre Kolkata in 1979 to retire as Director and Distinguished Scientist of this organisation in 2016. He has held visiting positions at KfK Karlsruhe, GSI Darmstadt, University of Bielefeld and University of Frankfurt in Germany, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Minnesota and Duke University in the USA, McGill University Canada, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa at various times. Prof Srivastava is Fellow of National Academy of Sciences and thr Indian National Science Academy. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Pramana and Scientific Reports. He has been honoured with several national and international awards for his research and other academic activities.