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08/08/22 13:59 PM IST

Kalaiselvi CSIR's 1st woman DG

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  • Lithium-ion battery scientist Dr N. Kalaiselvi broke another glass ceiling in her career after being appointed as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)  for a span of two years. 
  • The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has for the first time in its 80-year history appointed a woman Director-General.
Dr. N. Kalaiselvi 
  • She was previously the first woman scientist to head the CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI) in 2019.
  • Known for her work in the field of lithium-ion batteries, she also focuses on electrochemical power systems and, in particular, development of electrode materials.
  • She is currently involved in the development of “practically viable Sodium-ion/Lithium-sulfur batteries and Supercapacitors.
  • She not only contributed to the Mobility Mission Concept Note that the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) started, but also played a key role in and oversaw the efforts of CSIR-CECRI in the compilation of the Technical Report on National Mission for Electric Mobility (NMEM).
  • She belongs to Ambasamudram, a small town in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, where she studied in a Tamil-medium school.
  • An International Scientist of the Year awardee in 2007, Dr Kalaiselvi had begun her professional career as an entry-level scientist at the CSIR.
  • Between 1999 and 2019, she has received multiple merits, fellowships and awards, including winning the ‘Young Scientist Seminar Award’ of CECRI thrice. She was also awarded an Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting fellowship in 1999.
  • In 2003, she received the Brain Pool Fellowship of Korea and, in 2011, was selected for the INSA-NRF Exchange Program of Scientists and visited the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI).
  • In 2015, she was the recipient of the Materials Research Society Medal, followed by the C.V. Raman Mahila Vijnana Puraskara in 2019.
CSIR 
  • Established: September 1942
  • Headquarters: New Delhi
  • CSIR is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and it operates as an autonomous body through the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
  • CSIR covers a wide spectrum of streams – from radio and space physics, oceanography, geophysics, chemicals, drugs, genomics, biotechnology and nanotechnology to mining, aeronautics, instrumentation, environmental engineering and information technology.
  • It provides significant technological intervention in many areas with regard to societal efforts which include the environment, health, drinking water, food, housing, energy, farm and non-farm sectors.
Source- The Tribune

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