Member Since 1988
Anil Bhardwaj
Director, Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad India
Prof. Anil Bhardwaj is a Distinguished Professor and Director of Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. He was Director of SPL-VSSC-ISRO during Feb. 2014-2017. Recipient of Bhatnagar Award, INSA-Vainu Bappu Award, Infosys Prize, ISRO Team & Merit awards, Dist. Alumnus Award IIT-BHU and Lucknow University, ISRO Outstanding Award, J.C. Bose Fellow. NRC-SRA at NASA MSFC, Elected Fellow: IASc, INSA, NASI, AOGS; IGU, KASc, GSA, IAeS, Member of IAA, IAU.
Professional Experience
Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad India
Director
2017 - Present
Physical Research Lab
Director
Education
Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi
Doctorate
1992
Current Roles
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy International Basu Early Career Award Committee
Publications
Atypically Intense and Delayed Response of the Martian Ionosphere to the Regional Dust Storm of 2016...
During Mars dust storms, atmospheric heating and expansion moves the ionospheric peak upward. Typically, peak altitude increases by no more than 10...
December 23, 2022
Boulder Fall Ejecta: Present Day Activity on Mars
December 29, 2021
Argon‐40 in Lunar Exosphere: Observations From CHACE‐2 on Ch...
October 19, 2021
Boulder Fall Activity in the Jezero Crater, Mars
December 01, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Study of the Jupiter system with the Line Emission Mapper probe: Exploring Fundamental Atomic and Plasma Physics in a Natural Laboratory
MAGNETOSPHERES IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM I POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 14 december 2023
Seán McEntee, William Dunn, Vatsal Parmar, Adam Fo...
The Jupiter system produces a cornucopia of X-ray emissions, providing a diverse range of invaluable local analogues for bodies and plasmas across the...
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Structural Controls on Volcanism along the Rings of Crisium Basin on the Moon
TO THE MOON: A NEW ERA OF LUNAR SCIENCE —GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS IV ORAL
planetary sciences | 12 december 2023
Neha Panwar, Ankita Yadav, Neeraj Srivastava, Megh...
The Crisium Basin (17.0 °N, 59.1 °E) is a ~1100 km multi-ring basin formed at ~4.07 Ga [1] and exhibiting extensive volcanism within its Inn...
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Investigating impact events and origins of life: Insight from laboratory experiments
EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF EARLY EARTH ENVIRONMENTS, PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY, AND LIFE’S EMERGENCE II POSTER
planetary sciences | 11 december 2023
Surendra V. Singh, V Jayarm, T Vijay, Vijayan S, A...
The primitive Earth witnessed a wide range of impact events caused by bolides colliding with the surface, varying in size from micrometres to kilometr...
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Volunteer Experience
2019 - 2025
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy International Basu Early Career Award Committee
2023 - 2023
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy International Basu Early Career Award Committee
2019 - 2022
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy International Basu Early Career Award Committee
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