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Sushmitha Baskar
Sushmitha Baskar
is presently working at the School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. She earned her M.Sc (1995) (Gold medalist) and M.Phil in Environmental Science (1997) from the Department of Environmental Sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. She obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Science (2002) from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar. She is awarded with various national fellowships: CSIR (SRF), CSIR (RA), CSIR- Pool Scientist (SRA), UGC Dr. DS Kothari post-doctoral fellowship. She is awarded with international fellowships: Swiss Fellowship (2002-04) to work at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, Indo-Norwegian Grant (2008-09) to work at University of Bergen, Norway and Swedish Grant (2009) at Stockholm University, Sweden where she carried out research in the field of Cave geomicrobiology. She has also visited Technical University, Munich, Germany, Czech Republic, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia for part of her research training and as an invited speaker in trainings and conferences. She was recently awarded the university Silver medal for “Best researcher 2019 IGNOU” by the Vice President of India, Sh. Venkaiah Naidu. Her interests include Environmental Science, Environmental Microbiology and Geomicrobiology. She has been an invited speaker at Mahidol University, Thailand and the Summer school on Speleology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2018. She has made significant contributions in peer reviewed international journals with 40 research publications and 3 books. She is a reviewer in peer reviewed journals ‘Current Science’ and ‘Astrobiology’. She was an invited Speaker at Indian Science Congress 2014, 2016, 2020. She has written several chapters for IGNOU, chapters for E-PG pathshala and contributed for online course development at IGNOU and refresher courses (ARPIT) offered through SWAYAM (MOOC-IGNOU), MOOC-AMU, Aligarh, MOOC-GJUST, Hisar, MOOC-MLSU, Udaipur). She is the coordinator for IESO International Earth Science Olympaid in Delhi-NCR region from 2012 till present. She regularly gives lectures on Gyanvani (FM105.6) and Gyandarshan programmes at IGNOU. She is also a science journalist for Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. At IGNOU she is the Programme Coordinator for Ph.D. Environmental Science, PG Diploma in Environmental and Occupational Health and the Course Coordinator for M.Sc. Environmental Science papers in Earth processes, Disaster management and Environment and Society.
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