S.M. Ahmed
My blogs
- Comet ISON lost to SUN
- ISRO-The glowing face of INDIA
- What Next for Engineers ???
- IndiSpaceFan
- Moon has Atmosphere, Thanks to Chandrayaan-I
- No Entry-H1N1
- Limb Girdle Muscle Dystrophy
- Muscle Dystrophy (MD), Duchenne Muscle Dystrophy
- CO2 on Moon; Wake up folks, Its our turn
- MARS-METHANE-MIS...
- What is CHACE
- How did CHACE detected water on the Moon in the Chandrayaan-I mission
- Lunar Water : Was there a contamination in CHACE measurements
- MOM (The Indian Mars Mission)
- chace2moon
- IndiSocialFan
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Location | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Introduction | Ph.D. from PRL, Ahmedabad, 1990 Presently heading the Central Instruments Laboratory as Principal Scientific Officer at the University of Hyderabad (Since 2009) He has held positions at: Associate Professor-I, Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar (1992-2004), Research Associate, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1994-96), Visiting Scientist, Swiss Federal Institute (EPFL, 2001-2), Switzerland Team leader, ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC: 2004-9), Trivandrum Adjunct Faculty, IIT Bhubaneswar, 2014 He joined ISRO’s most ambitious Chandrayaan-I project in 2004 and developed a quadrupole based mass spectrometer, CHACE, which worked successfully in the Moon Impact Probe mission. Prestigious Positions: He has spoken at TEDx HiTech City, Hyderabad, 2010, Gitam Univ. 2017 Dr. Ahmed has won Suryadatta National Award 2011, PUNE, Science and Technology section Served as Scientific Advisory Council Member (2012), Team Indus, the google Lunar X-Prize |
| Interests | Science Popularization |