Prashant Goswami
| Prashant Goswami | |
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| Born |
January 1, 1959 Assam, India |
| Residence | New Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Known for | Studies on the tropical atmospheric variability |
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Prashant Goswami (born 1959) is an Indian computational geoscientist, climatologist and the director of the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi. He is a former scientist at the Fourth Paradigm Institute (formerly CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation) and is known for his studies on the tropical atmospheric variability across the time scales. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 2001.
Prashant Goswami, born on the New Year's Day of 1959 in the Northeast Indian state of Assam, did his master's degree in physics at Guwahati University and secured a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 1982; his doctoral thesis was in mathematical and theoretical physics. After completing his post-doctoral studies at IISc, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur as a visiting professor and in 1993, he moved to the CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS) (presently known as Fourth Paradigm Institute) as a scientist where he became the head of the Climate and Environmental Modelling Programme. He served the institute for over 22 years till his move to the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS) as its director in November 2015. In between, he also served as a visiting professor at École Normale Supérieure during 2001–03 and as the dean of the Mathematical and Information Science at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research.
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