University Of Hyderabad’s M Jayananda selected for J C Bose National Fellowship

NEW DELHI: The University of Hyderabad’s (UoH) M Jayananda, senior professor and head of the centre for earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences, has been selected for J C Bose national fellowship for his contributions to solid earth sciences.

According to the university, the J C Bose national fellowship is awarded to active scientists in recognition of their performance.

The university stated that “ Jayananda’s research has a significant global impact on the origin of habitable continents, oxygenation of ocean-atmospheric system of early earth, Cenozoic surface dynamics including interplay of climate and tectonics in landscape evolution, topographic built-up along passive continental margin Western Ghats and drainage patterns of rivers.”

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M Jayananda has worked in European, Japanese, and Taiwanese laboratories under fellowships and has published many research articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, assembled and edited special issues of high-ranking Elsevier Journal, organised international conferences, and field workshops.

As per UoH, Jayananda is one of the highly cited authors in solid earth sciences and has also contributed to the promotion of science in the developing world, simultaneously contributing to the global earth science community as editor-in-chief of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) flagship journal ’Episodes’ 2009-2013, editor-in-chief of the Himalayan Geology (2017-), associate editor of Journal of Earth System Science (Springer), regional editor of Gondwana Research (Elsevier), editorial board member Journal of Geological Society of India (Springer), Precambrian Research (Elsevier) and Journal Asian Earth Sciences (Elsevier).

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Jayanda has been promoting science through participating in IUGS programs (IGCP projects) and also has participated in national committees and public outreach activities by delivering lectures at different universities and as a mentor at the government of India flagship science programme of Inspire Camps for high school students through lectures.

“In view of these contributions to research, academics, mentoring of students, capacity building, and promotion of science through editing, reviewing in the developing world, he has been conferred several awards and elected to the fellowship of all the three National Science Academies of India which is highest level recognition in science”, the university stated.