Brief Bio
Dr. Shailesh Nayak is the Director of NIAS and a Member of the Governing Council of TERI. He has been Chair of ESSO and Secretary to the Government of India for MoES (2008-2015). He has made outstanding contributions in improving the advisory services related to potential fishing zones, ocean state forecast, and the Indian Argo project. Dr. Nayak was the Chairman of the Research Advisory Committee of the NIO, Goa (2008-2015), Centre for Earth Science Studies (2007-2013), and Defence Terrain Research Laboratory, Delhi. He joined the SAC, ISRO in 1978 as a scientist and was subsequently elevated to the Director of Marine and Water Resources. Dr. Nayak took over as the Director of INCOIS, Hyderabad, in 2006, where he set up an early warning system for tsunami and storm surges in the Indian Ocean. Dr. Nayak is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru, the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), and an elected Member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Dr. Nayak is the recipient of IGU, Hari Narain Lifetime Achievement Award in Geosciences-2013, the ISCA Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award 2012, the Bhaskara Award for 2009, the Indian National Remote Sensing Award for 1994, and the National Mineral Award for 2005. Dr. Nayak is the President Federation of Indian Geoscientists Associations and the President Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad, apart from several other national scientific bodies. Dr. Nayak has published about 150 papers in reputed international and national journals.
