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NEW DELHI: Former Principal Science Advisor Professor K Vijay Raghavan will head Ashoka University’s newly-constituted Science Advisory Council, the university announced on Tuesday.
The council led by Raghavan will advise the vice-chancellor on enhancing research, teaching and training in the Natural Sciences, Computer Science and Mathematics.
“The objective of this initiative is to build Ashoka University into a hub of high-quality scientific research and help stimulate research across India, addressing important problems that face the world today,” it said in a communiqué.
Prof. Raghavan was appointed the principal scientific advisor to the government of India in 2018 and superannuated in April 2022.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the office of the PSA was among the key coordinating agencies with industry, research bodies, and health and science ministries in the development of diagnostics, drugs and vaccines.
The university council will also help build collaborations and forge partnerships with research institutions in order to raise resources to further enhance research capacity, it said.
“Apart from this, the members of the council will advise the vice-chancellor on building innovative post-graduate programmes that can make an impact on society and nurture scholars in the field,” said university VC Malabika Sarkar.
Professor Raghavan, said, “It gives me immense pleasure to take on this role at Ashoka University, which has been making significant strides into various areas of cutting-edge research, aimed at solving some of the most important scientific issues of our time.”
“The council will play a very important role in guiding Ashoka University’s research and development agenda as it enters the next phase of its evolution as a world-class interdisciplinary institution,” he added.
