Dr Shakeel Ahmed chosen for NGRI-AHI Award -2014

Hyderabad: Dr Shakeel Ahmed, Chief Scientist at CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad has been selected for the prestigious “NGRI-AHI Indian Hydrology Lecture Award-2014”

Dr Shakeel Ahmed, basically an Exploration Geophysicist, joined NGRI as Scientist B in 1982 and enhanced his qualifications by obtaining Ph.D from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (Paris School of Mines: Now Mines Paris Tech) in France in 1987.

Dr Ahmed efforts in the Indo-French Collaboration took a quantum jump in 1999 with the most important event in the history of NGRI’s International collaboration of setting-up the “Indo-French Centre for Groundwater Research (IFCGR) that he is still heading. Dr Ahmed was invited to deliver lectures in many countries viz., Australia, Iran, Egypt, Kenya, Sudan, People's Republic of China and Pakistan as resource person sponsored by the UNESCO and CSC and so on.

Dr Ahmed was honored at the 7th Cannes International Water Symposium where he received the trophy of the International Prize for Water Sciences.

Recently Dr Ahmed completed an important project on aquifer mapping, AQUIM, establishing guidelines for 3D continuous geophysical mapping using heliborne Geophysical investigation, an advanced technology applied first time in India.