Principal Scientist | CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication & Research Policy, Indian Introduction to the Corpus of India
Talk Title: An Introduction to the Corpus of Indian Knowledge and its Documentation, Validation and Communication
Dr. Charu Lata is Principal Scientist and Head of the Traditional Knowledge Division at CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (CSIR-NIScPR), New Delhi. Dr Lata is the Coordinator of the national initiative SVASTIK on “Communicating India’s Scientifically Validated Traditional Knowledge to the Society”. She is also the Editor of Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge and Associate Professor at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). Dr Lata pursued a Doctor of Philosophy from the prestigious National Institute of Plant Genome Research and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where she worked extensively on the genetics and genomics of foxtail millet. Later, she joined ICAR-NIPB (erstwhile NRCPB), New Delhi as INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, and then as a Scientist at CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow from where she moved to CSIR-NIScPR, New Delhi in 2019. She reoriented her research focus in the field of science communication and policy research in traditional knowledge at CSIR-NIScPR.
Dr. Lata is a recipient of some of the prestigious national and international awards including Young Scientist awards by INSA (2014) and NASI (2012). She also received INSPIRE Faculty Award 2011, Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research 2013, SERB Women Excellence Award 2014, Indo-Australia EMCR Fellowship 2017, and SERB Early Career Research Award 2018. She is an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) [2019-2022], Member of the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) since 2015, and Founding Member of the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) [2015-2020]. Dr Lata is a Fellow of the International Society for Environmental Botanists 2021. She has been consecutively listed as world’s top 2% scientists in Plant Sciences by Stanford University, USA. She has authored more than 75 original articles in various peer reviewed high impact SCI Journals and books with >5700 citations, h-index 33, and i-10 index 42.