Parvez Guzdar Award

Parvez Guzdar Award

Applications are invited for Parvez Guzdar Award from Young Indian Scientists below the age of 35 years, who have made significant research contributions in the field of plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion research.

The Institute for Plasma Research operates this Award from a corpus fund contributed by family and friends of Dr. Parvez Guzdar, whose research contributions spanned a broad spectrum of topics in plasma physics ranging from fundamental studies of plasma instabilities to novel applications and interpretation of experimental phenomena in magnetic fusion devices, laser fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas and various nonlinear systems.

The selected scientist will be awarded cash prize of Rs.50,000/- and citation during the Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) symposium.

A brief description of Dr. Guzdar's work can be seen here;

http://www.ipr.umd.edu/ireap/personnel/Guzdar/guzdar.htm

Dr. Parvez Guzdar

(1949-2011)

Year

Recepient

Affiliation

Area of research

2012

Manish Chaudhari

MPE, Garching, Germany

Physics of Complex plasmas

2013

Prateek Sharma

IISc, Bangalore

Physics of Astrophysical Plasmas

2014

Amit Lad

TIFR, Mumbai

Physics of intense laser-matter interactions

2015

Ashwin Joy

IIT madras

Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

2016

Subir Biswas

SINP Kolkata

Basic experimental Plasma physics

Sanat Tiwari

University of Iowa

Nonlinear phenomena in strongly coupled plasmas

2017

Girish Gupta

IUCAA, Pune

Solar & Astrophysical Plasmas

2018

Kshitish Kumar Barada

UCLA, USA

experimental studies of helicon plasmas, advanced plasma diagnostics and edge turbulence in tokamaks

2019

Dr. Remya Bhanu

IIGM, Mumbai

waves and instabilities in space plasma systems, including planetary and cometary environments

2020

Dr. Riddhi Bandyopadhyay

Princeton University

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and its

manifestations in astrophysical plasmas

Dr. Soumen Ghosh

University of California, San Diego

Experimental studies of basic plasma phenomena including helicon wave generation and positron beam physics

2021

Dr. Gopal Hazra

Leiden University, Netherlands,

Solar dynamo and dynamical plasma phenomena in the sun, stars and interstellar medium

2022

Dr. P. K. Kayshap

Vellore Institute of Technology,

Bhopal

UV & EUV Spectroscopy and investigation of various plasma instabilities and associated phenomena in the solar atmosphere

2023

Dr. Amreen Ara Hussain

IPR, Gandhinagar

Development of Hybrid Material Based Optoelectronic

Devices using Plasma Technologies