Dinesh Kumar Srivastava

DK Srivastava
HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR
Phone
09836176868
E-mail
dinesh.srivastava@nias.res.in
Department

Prof. Dinesh Kumar Srivastava is Homi Bhabha Chair Professor in the Energy and  Environment Programme. 

Prof. Srivastava  has held many distinguished positions in the past such as DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow; Director and Distinguished Scientist in Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata; Honorary Professor, Amity University, NOIDA;  Emeritus Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute.  

Prof. Srivastava started his career as Scientific Officer at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1971 and moved to Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre Kolkata in 1979 to retire as Director and Distinguished Scientist of this Organization in 2016. He has held visiting positions at KfKKarsruhe, GSI Darmstadt, University of Bielefeld and University of Frankfurt in Germany, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Minnesota and Duke University in the USA, McGill University Canada, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa of various durations. 

Prof. Srivastava is Fellow of National Academy of Sciences as well as Indian National Science Academy. He has about 160 publications in refereed journals and has delivered more than 100 talks at national and international conferences. About 300 lectures, seminars and colloquia on nuclear physics and the need for basic research and outreach. He has been honoured with several  national and international awards for research and academic activities.

nias Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
Jean Cleymans A Life for Physics
Co-Edited with Raghunath Sahoo, Edward Sarkisyan-Grinbaum and Airton Deppmann. MDPI Books, Basel, Switzerland
2024
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Environment and biodiversity conservation
Co-Authored with Monowar A Khalid, Vinod P Sharma and Tabassum Jehan, Gutenberg, New Delhi. ISBN 9789393937087
2024
Climate Change and Energy Options Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, V S Ramamurthy
co-authored
Climate change and energy options for a sustainable future
Singapore: World Scientific.
2021
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
Shaurya aur maya ke saat vaigyanik karanaame (in Hindi), a book on science through stories for children.
Lucknow: Gutenberg Inc.
2020
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
Seven scientific adventures of shaurya and maya (second in the series of books on science for children).
Lucknow: Gutenberg Books Pvt. Ltd.
2019
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
India’s Road to HEP
Co Authored with V S Ramamurthy. In: “Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and Societal Impacts”, eds P Charitos, T Arabatzis, H Cliff, G Dissertori, J Forneris, and L Li-Ying, 2023
2023
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
Energy, Environment and Climate Change
Myriad Ways in Which Things Could Have Gone Wrong but Did Not
In: Chirayath, S.S., Sai Baba, M. (eds) Human Reliability Programs in Industries of National Importance for Safety and Security. Risk, Reliability and Safety Engineering. Springer, 2023
2023
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
A Tribute to Professor Bikash Sinha- A Celebrated Physicist of India
Science and Culture 90 (2024) 102-105
28 April 2024
Journal Articles
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, V S Ramamurthy
co-authored
Seventy-five years after Hiroshima
Science and Culture 87(1-2): 24-29.
1 January 2021
Journal Articles
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, V S Ramamurthy
co-authored
Communication in a connected world: Challenges and opportunities.
Science and Culture October 2020: 292-298.
1 October 2020
Journal Articles
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
Directed flow of photons in Cu+Au collisions at RHIC.
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 47: 085101
1 January 2020
Journal Articles
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, V S Ramamurthy
co-authored
Managing production-demand mismatch in thermal power plants.
Current Science 119(1): 15-16.
1 January 2020
Journal Articles
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, V S Ramamurthy
co-authored
Communication and management of public risks (with specific reference to COVID-19 global pandemic)
Current Science 118(12): 1878-1884.
1 January 2020
Journal Articles
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, V S Ramamurthy
Apiculture: The sweet trail to prosperity
Science Reporter March 2021: 44-48.
2021
Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, V S Ramamurthy
co-authored
The incredible journey of nitrates and ammonia.
Science Reporter November 2020: 36-39.
2020