AHMEDABAD: Well-known
astrophysicist
and provost of
Charusat University
, Pankaj Joshi, has bagged a global recognition for his work. He has been elected as a fellow at The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
Joshi’s election has been backed by
American theoretical physicist
and a Nobel Laureate, Kip Thorne, and other internationally reputed scientists.
“The nominee has made fundamental contributions in black hole physics, gravitation and cosmology, which have brought him an international acclaim,” the TWAS said in an announcement profiling the physicist.
Joshi’s extensive analysis of general relativistic gravitational collapse has been widely recognized as providing key significant insights into the final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe, space-time singularities and cosmic censorship, it said.
Over the past several years, Joshi’s paradigm changing work has shown that massive stars could collapse to black holes, or exploding fireballs called naked singularities.
In later case, observable signals from ultra-dense regions near a singularity may reach faraway observers in the universe, it further said.
Joshi’s research, some 200 publications in reputed international journals, books and monographs in topmost series from the OUP (Oxford) and CUP (Cambridge) are now widely cited, making this a frontier research field in black hole physics and cosmology.
TWAS is a UNESCO programme, based in Trieste, Italy.
Apart from Joshi, in the field of physics, a senior professor from Physical Research Laboratory, Srubabati Goswami, has also been elected this year as a
TWAS fellow
.
“Goswami has made outstanding contributions in analyzing and interpreting the results of solar and reactor neutrino experiments in terms of neutrino oscillations,” according to a statement by TWAS.
She has spearheaded the development of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) by consolidating its physics potential, identifying major thrust areas of current and future experiments and integrating INO with this worldwide activity, as per the statement.
TWAS is the world’s pre-eminent academy of sciences dedicated to the promotion of science, with over 1,100 members representing the best of science in developing countries, including 15 Nobel laureates.
TWAS said in a statement on December 15 that it has elected 35 new fellows, bringing total TWAS membership to 1,302. Sixteen new members are women – which amounts to 46% of the new class, a record high, it said.
TWAS was founded in 1983 by Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam (physics 1979) on the belief that developing nations, by building strength in science and engineering, could build the knowledge and skill to address such challenges as hunger, disease and poverty.
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