Rohini M. Godbole
rmgodbole.in
Date of Birth: 12th November 1952.
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B.Sc. (Physics), University of Pune,India 1972, First Rank.
M.Sc. (Physics), Indian Inst. of Technology, Bombay, India,1974, First Rank, Institute Silver Medal
Ph.D. (Physics),S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, N.Y., U.S.A,1979.
Positions held:
• August 2018 – present: Honorary Professor, Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
• November 1995 – August 2018: Professor (1998-2018), Associate Professor (1995-1998),Chairperson 1996 – 2002, at the Centre for Theoretical Studies(Centre for High Energy Physics), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
• November 1982–November 1995, Reader (1987-1995), Lecturer (1982-1987),Department of Physics, University of Bombay.
• Aug. 1982–November 1982, CSIR Research Associate, Institute of Science, Bombay.
• Sept. 1979–August 1982, Visiting Fellow, Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research (TIFR),Bombay.
• September 2018- December 2018, Van der Waals Chair visiting Professor and distinguished visitor, Amsterdam Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Amsterdam.
• 2013-2016, Staff Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
• Feb 2011 – August 2011, Visiting Professor, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• June 2010 – Feb 2011, Scientific Associate, CERN Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Adjunct faculty of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai: Department of Theoretical Physics and International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, 2005-2010.
• Dec. 2002 – May 2003, DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
• May 2002 – Nov. 2002, Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland,
• June1986 – June1988, Department of Physics, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
• Associate Member of the ICTP: (1984-1992) (1995-2001).
Awards:
• Recipient, Ordre National du Merite, Civilian Honour of France, January, 2021.
• Padma Shree, Civilian Honour of India, January 2019.
• Honorary member by Marathi Vidnyan Parishad, April 2022
• Honorary Fellow, Karnataka Science and Technology Academy, January 2021.
• Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2010).
• Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India (2007), Council Member and Vice President (January 2017- December 2018)
• Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Delhi (2003), Council Member : 2011-2014.
• Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1992), Council Member: 2018-2024, Vice President 2022-2024.
• Young Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences,(1985-1988).
• D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Visweswaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India (2022).
• D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), December 2021.
• D. Litt. (Honoris Causa), 100 year old, S.N.D.T. Women’s University, December 2013.
• D.Litt.,(Honoris Causa), 100 year old Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune, 2021.
• Goyal Prize in Physical Sciences, awarded by the Kurukshetra University, September 2021.
• Life time achievement Award of the Karnataka Science and Technology Academy in Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine (STEAM)’, January 2021.
• K. S. Krishnan Memorial Lecture Award of the Indian National Science Academy, 2019.
• R.D. Birla Award of IPA for 2018, given in 2019.
• APS outstanding referee for 2018.
• Satyendra Nath Bose Medal for Theoretical Physics of the Indian National Science Academy, 2008.
•J.C. Bose fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology of India, 2008-2020.
• Meghnad Saha Medal for Theoretical Physics of the Asiatic Society, 2007.
• Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, India (2004).
Books:
’Theory And Phenomenology Of Sparticles’ (2005), with Sunil Mukhi. . ’Lilavati’s Daughters: Women scientists of India’, with R. Ramaswamy, now in 5th printing. ’A Girls Guide to Life in Science’ published by Zubaan, India,
‘A Braided River – The Universe of Indian Women in Science’, co-editor (2022). [ Decide to add of skip]
• 2018-2021, DST India -BMWfW Austria project, Defining next generation searches for beyond the Standard Model Physics, with S. Kulkarni, University of Graz.
• 2016-2019, Co director of the ’International Associated Laboratory’ on Indo French High Energy Physics Collaboration, (LIA), between India and France, with F. Boudjema of LAPTH- Annecy, France.
• 2014-2017, [email protected] LHC,-Fundamental Interactions at the boundary of theory, phenomenology and experiments , with F. Maltoni, Univ. of Louvain, Belgium.
• 2010-2013, The Indo-US R & D Network Centre for Beyond Standard Model Physics Phenomenology, a project supported by the INDO USSTF, with Univ. of Hawaai and Univ. of Wisconsin, USA.
• 2004-2008, Collider Physics: SUSY, Higgs and CP violation at colliders Project from the Indo French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Scientific Research (IFCPAR) , extended by one more year, with Univ. of Montpellier, C.N.R.S. laboratories LPT(Paris) and LAPTh (Annecy).
• 1998-2002, ‘Collider Physics, a project from IFCPAR, C.N.R.S Laboratory for High Energy Physics: LAPTh(Annecy).
• 1996-1999, ‘Physics at Current and Future Colliders’, INDO -US collaborative research project funded by NSF(US) and the DST(India), with University of Hawaii.
Theses under my supervision
Ph. D. Theses: Three (Bombay University,BU), ten completed (IISc) and one in progress. (One Ph.D. student at BU from Sri Lanka.)
M.Phil. Theses : Three (Bombay University)
M.S. Theses: Five (IISc)
Committees of International Programs:
• Member of the Advisory Group formed by the World Bank to support the Analytical and Advisory work (ASA) on NEP implementation started as a part of their Global Tertiary Education effort (2021-2022).
• Member, Advisory Group for the African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics (ASFAP), (2020-2022).
• Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, USA, 2018-2020.
• Member, International Advisory Board, CEPC: Chinese(circular) Electron Positron Collider, China, 2016-now.
• Member, Scientific Council of the Indo-French Center for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA) 2014-2017.
• Member, International Detector Advisory Group for the International Linear Collider, 2007-2012.
• Member, International Advisory Committee, Asia-Europe-Pacific-Schools on High-Energy-Physics (AEPSHEP) 2012-2018.
• Member, Commission C11 on Particles and Fields of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, 2002–2005, 2008-2011.
• Member, AASSA (Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia) (Inaugural) Special committee on women in science and engineering, December 2013-December 2016.
• Current Membership of Committees of Indian Institutions of research and higher learning :
Kerala State Planning Board for the 14th five year plan, 2021-2022; Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Management Board, (2021- 2024); Board of Management, University Department of Physics, University of Mumbai, (2021-2024), Governing Body and Research Steering Committee for Sciences (RSC-S), of the Institute of Eminence (IoE) of the University of Hyderabad,( 2020-now); Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India, 2019-now; Scientific Council of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2014-now.
Committees of Government of India:
• Member, DST-DAE coordination steering Committee for CERN-India cooperation, 2015-now.
• Member, Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of India (SAC-C), 2007- 2013.
• Member, Program Advisory Committee,Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, (1997-2000) and Member,Expert Committee of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India (1995-2010).
• Member DST-DAE(Dept.of Atomic Energy) expert committee for CERN-India Project, 1998-2015.
Science Education
• She participates vigorously in the Science Education program run by the three Indian Science Academies, writing articles for its Science Education journal, conducting lecture workshops for teachers of Physics and Mathematics and also lecturing in these workshops. From 1995-2005, she ran yearly summer student program at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science. She has guided routinely two or three summer students every summer for the last twenty years under different programs such as the Inter Academy Science Education program and various schemes of the department of Science and Technology. She has had students from Europe and USA come to India to spend summer or a semester in their master’s program and they have published papers with her.
She has been involved with S.E.R.C. Schools for Ph.D. students in Theoretical High Energy Physics, being a member of the committee from 1994-2010 being the Chair 2005-2010. She was the Director ’XII S.E.R.C. School in Theoretical High Energy Physics, Held in Bangalore Feb.- March 1997 and the organiser, Chair (LOC) for the International 2014 Asia Europe Pacific School of High Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2014, held in Bhubaneswar, India, November 2014.
Many lectures about particle physics at all levels: at a popular level to general public,
She is also very concerned about the state of representation of Women in Science in general and in India in particular. She was member of the committee that brought out the ‘INSA Report : access for Indian Women to careers in science’, the first such recent study in India. She was the founding chair of the Indian Academy of Sciences Panel for Women in Science and has put in many programs in place to increase and facilitate participation of women in science in India. She guided a survey to understand reasons behind the dropout of women from a science career AFTER a doctorate, which is a serious issue in India. She is involved in these efforts at the Asian level as well.
Other contributions:
• Member, Expert Committee, Implementation of Programmes for Accelerated Participation of Women in Science and Technology, Department of Science and Technology.
• Chair, Advisory Committee of the Department of Science and Technology, for the implementation of the Gender Advancement Transformative Initiative (GATI).
• Member, ’The World Academy of Sciences Gender Advisory Committee (TWAS GAC)’, 2021-2024.
• Member, Standing Committee of Women in Science of the Government of India, 2015-now.
• Chair, Committee for Physical and Mathematical Sciences, WOS/A scheme of the DST, 2004-2007.
• (Founding)Chair, Panel for Women in Science of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India (2005-2016).
• Member, Joint panel for Women in Science of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences and The National Academy of Sciences, India (2014-now).
• Convener, Committee on Women in Science, of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, (2003).
• Chief (mentor) Editor, Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, brought out by CSIR, India, since January 2022.
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Physics G, IOP Journal, UK, 2019-2022; Member Executive Editorial Board, from April 2022 .
• Chair of the committee to draft the ’Equity and Inclusion Chapter of the Science and Technology Innovation Policy of India’, STIP-2020.
• Editorial Board Member: Pramana, Journal of Physics, Indian Academy of Science, 1995-1998.
• Editor Pramana, Journal of Physics, Indian Academy of Science (1998-2015), Chief Editor: 2007-2015 , Associate Editor 1998-2007. The journal became completely online during her association and saw an increase in the impact factor.
• Editor: LHC/LC Report. An international Report brought out to evaluate the synergy between the hadronic high energy collider LHC and the International Leptonic Collider in Planning, the ILC.
Since 2000, she has been on the program advisory committee or the International advisory committee or program advisory committee five or more times, for series of important International Conferences such as i) International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions , ii) International Workshop on Linear Collider Physics, iii) International Workshop on Physics at TeV colliders, Les Houches, France, iv) International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies and vi) Annual International Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics. She was also asked to convene sessions therein
In addition she organised also
• Convener, International Workshop On Linear Colliders, LCWS06, March 9-13, 2006, Bangalore, India.
• Organiser, XXV International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies, 22-37 August, 2011, Mumbai, India.
• Organiser, ’Indo-French Women in Science seminar through IFCPAR: Indo French Centre for Promotion for Advanced Scientific Research, February 2015.