CitSciOzOnline: Resilience - Dr Ramesh Mashelkar
Channel: Australian Citizen Science Association
Date: 2020-10-19

Dr Ramesh Mashelkar caught up with ACSA Chair Dr Erin Roger and ACSA Patron Dr Geoff Garrett AO, to discuss citizen science and resilience in the aftermath of disaster at #CitSciOzOnline.


Dr Maskelkar is the Director-General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Chairman of National Innovation Foundation as also the President of Indian National Science Academy, Global Research Alliance and Institute of Chemical Engineers (UK). He has been honoured as a Fellow of Royal Society, Foreign Fellow of US National Academy of Science as also Engineering, Foreign Associate of American Academy of Arts and Science & Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors. He has been elected to the Fellowship of both the Australian Academy of Science and Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.


Dr Mashelkar has had a record stint as Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Professor at Monash University during 2007-2020. He has been honoured with honorary doctorates by 42 universities, which include Monash and Swinburne. The sixty plus awards won by him include the prestigious TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize, Business Week (USA) award of `Stars of Asia’& JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award.  Dr Mashelkar, who was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister for over thirty years, has been honoured with Padmashri,  Padmabhushan, and  Padma Vibhushan, three of the highest civilian honours in India. The devastation caused by the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has brought out the importance of resilience. Dr Mashelkar has recently proposed 10 tenets to build a crises resilient innovation ecosystem and his ongoing optimism in the face of challenges.


Find out more here www.mashelkar.com.


We thank Dr Mashelkar for his time and commitment to citizen science in Australia.