{"id":4424,"date":"2015-09-26T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/elsevier-and-national-academy-of\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:08:39","slug":"elsevier-and-national-academy-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/elsevier-and-national-academy-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsevier and National Academy of Sciences, India Announced the Winners of the 2015 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nElsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) announced the winners of the 2015 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards.<\/p>\n
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\nThe awards ceremony, held at the Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi, was attended by more than 125 guests representing India’s top scientific community. The awards were presented by Dr. R. Chidambaram Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India & Chairman Scientific Advisory Committee to Cabinet. <\/p>\n

Elsevier first launched the Scopus Young Scientist Awards in 2006.In India, theprogram was officially institutionalized within its scientific community through Elsevier’s collaboration with NASI in 2009. The program honors young researchers who are building their careers in academic research and helps them gain recognition of their work. <\/p><\/div>\n

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\nThis year\u2019s NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards program attracted nearly 650 applications from multiple premier research institutions acrossIndia. Applications were judged by a panel of 32 subject experts from India’s academic community. Elsevier provided quantitative analyses using data from Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.Furthermore, the jury looked at criteria such as: <\/p>\n

\u00b7 Quality and number of publications;
\n\u00b7 Nature and uniqueness of research;
\n\u00b7 Outcomes of research;
\n\u00b7 Impact on society;
\n\u00b7 Vision of the researcher. <\/p>\n

Special consideration was also given to novel and innovative ideasthathold potential for commercial application. <\/p>\n

Per discipline, the award winners are: <\/p>\n

Agriculture<\/b>
\nDr. GnanavelVenkatesan
\nScientist
\nIndian Veterinary Research Institute, Nainital <\/p>\n

Dr. Swarup K. Parida
\nStaff Scientist
\nNational Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi <\/p>\n

Biological Sciences<\/b>
\nDr. Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya
\nPrincipal Scientist
\nCSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata <\/p>\n

Chemistry<\/b>
\nDr. Subi Jacob George
\nAssociate Professor
\nJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore <\/p>\n

Earth, Oceanographic & Environmental Sciences<\/b>
\nDr. Tarun Gupta
\nAssociate Professor
\nIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur <\/p>\n

Engineering<\/b>
\nDr. SubhransuRanjan Samantaray
\nAssistant Professor
\nIndian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar <\/p>\n

Mathematics<\/b>
\nDr. UK Anandavardhanan
\nAssociate Professor
\nIndian Institute of Technology, Mumbai <\/p>\n

Medicine<\/b>
\nDr. Rajnish Kumar Chaturvedi
\nScientist
\nCSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow <\/p>\n

Physics<\/b>
\nDr. G. V. Pavan Kumar
\nAssistant Professor
\nIndian Institute of Science Education & Research, Pune <\/p>\n

Social Sciences<\/b>
\nDr. Subharati Ghosh
\nAssistant Professor
\nTata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai <\/p>\n

\u201cNASI Scopus Young Scientists awards are now considered as a premier recognition of hard work, innovations and aspirations of young scientists of India\u201d said Professor AkhileshTyagi, President, NationalAcademy of Sciences, India. \u201cWe are proud to associate with Elsevier for the same as they encourage healthy competition, instill confidence and help establish credibility of first steps taken in the pursuit of scientific excellence. <\/p>\n

Youngsuk “Y.S.” Chi, Chairman of Elsevier, said, \u201cI congratulate this year\u2019s winners who continue to advance research excellence in India and all around the world. At Elsevier we are honored to support these award recipients and other stakeholders across the Indian scientific community with highest quality content and cutting edge digital solutions. We are thrilled to be part of this exciting time for Indian Science, and tonight\u2019s event is a celebration of this country\u2019s commitment to driving forward innovation and growth through research\u201d. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) announced the winners of the 2015 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards. The awards ceremony, held at the Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi, was attended by more than 125 guests representing India’s top scientific community. The awards were presented by Dr. R. Chidambaram Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India & Chairman Scientific Advisory Committee to Cabinet. Elsevier first launched the Scopus Young Scientist Awards in 2006.In India, theprogram was officially institutionalized within its scientific community through Elsevier’s collaboration with <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,8,1879],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-city-hulchal","tag-news-events","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26351,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/26351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}