{"id":277,"date":"2021-02-19T19:39:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/?p=277"},"modified":"2021-03-07T23:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:50:05","slug":"the-pandemic-has-brought-indias-science-communication-community-much-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/the-pandemic-has-brought-indias-science-communication-community-much-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The pandemic has brought India&#8217;s science communication community much closer.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya is a scientist working in the area of semiconductor optoelectronics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai. Arnab has a B.Tech degree from IIT-Bombay, a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and worked on an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut in Berlin, before setting up a research group in TIFR for novel semiconductor materials and devices. Arnab is also deeply passionate about science outreach, and enjoys talking about science and demonstrating science experiments to all audiences, particularly school\/college students and teachers. He pioneered \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/chaiandwhy\">Chai and Why?<\/a>\u201d Mumbai\u2019s popular science caf\u00e9 style initiative which offers informal and accessible discussions on science outside traditional academic settings since 2009. He received the 2010 Homi-Bhabha-Award in Science Education, and the 2012 Chevening Rolls-Royce Fellowship for Science and Innovation Leadership and is presently the chair of Science Popularization and Public Outreach at TIFR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republished from <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nextrends-asia\/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-science-communication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">nextrends Asia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya is a scientist working in the area of semiconductor optoelectronics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai. Arnab has a B.Tech degree from IIT-Bombay, a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and worked on an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut in Berlin, before setting up a research group in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/the-pandemic-has-brought-indias-science-communication-community-much-closer\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[59,60,62,63,58,61,50,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}