ACADEMIC AFFILIATION:

Alumnus, International Visitors Leadership Program, Department of State, United States of America.

Fellow Indian Geophysical Union

Fellow Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences

Fellow National Academy of Environmental Sciences.

CONSULTING:

Sr. Consultant Montreal Protocol & Climate Change, EESL New Delhi working out of the Ozone Cell of the MoEFCC, Government of India (January 2018 to July 2018)

Director, Vigyan Prasar (October 2012 to October 2017) An Autonomous Organization under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India).

Principal Research Scientist (Scientist SH): Environment & Climate Change Wing &

Director In Charge – Gujarat Energy Research & Management Institute (GERMI) Research, Innovation & Incubation Centre (GRIIC), Gandhinagar.

Gujarat, India. September 2009 – October 2012.

Scientist G (Programme Director – Environment Management) Centre for Environment Education, (CEE: A Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of

Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Govt. of India) June 1993 – September 2009.

Senior Research Associate, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai till June 1993.

EDUCATION:

PhD (Biological Sciences / Microbial Ecology, Sri Sathya Sa Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh).

PhD (Interdisciplinary Biosciences/ Chemical Ecology, University of Madras).

LLB (Gujarat University).

CONTACT:

www.nsb.ac.in

gopichandran@nsb.ac.in