Curriculum-Vitae. Present Position: Associate Professor at Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur, India since July 1, 2009

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1 Curriculum-Vitae Name : Ms. Nandita Srivastava Present Address : Udaipur Solar Observatory, P.B. No. 198, Badi Road, Dewali Udaipur Telephone : (Office) (Residence) Fax : nandita@prl. res.in Educational Qualifications: B.Sc: GGD University, Bilaspur, 1985 M. Sc.: Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, 1987 in Physics (Astrophysics) Topic of Ph. D. Thesis: Dynamic Phenomena On The Sun, 1994, Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad India (Awarded by Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur (M. P.) in Solar Physics. Present Position: Associate Professor at Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur, India since July 1, 2009 Positions Held: Udaipur Solar Observatory Physical Research Laboratory Udaipur, India Udaipur Solar Observatory Physical Research Laboratory Udaipur, India Beijing Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China National Institute For Space Research, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil Max-Planck Institut fuer Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany European Space and Technology Center, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur, India Max-Planck Institut fuer Sonnensystem Forschung,, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur, India Feb Jun Sept Aug Sept Dec.1994 Sept June 1997 Aug Feb Mar June 2000 July Dec August - October 2007 Jan Jun 2009 Graduate Student Post-doctoral fellow Visiting fellow Visiting Scientist Post-doctoral Fellow Visiting Fellow Scientist-SD Guest Scientist Reader Professional Membership : Astronomical Society of India: Life Member American Geophysical Union Member since 2003 European Geophysical Union-Member since 2010 International Astronomical Union Member since

2 Awards and Distinctions: 1. National Merit Certificate from M. P. Board, Bhopal, India in Max-Planck Society Fellowship in - August High Altitude Observatory, HAO, Visiting Scientist July Recipient of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics IUPAP) travel grant for Women in Physics, Member, Award Committee on Basu Award by the American Geophysical Union 2008, Recipient of Kieth Runcorn Travel Award to attend the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, 2009 & 2010 List of Publication: 43 Papers in Journals 18 Papers in Proceedings 5 Review articles in Books 5 Popular Science articles 1 Guest Editor of a Special issue of JASTP Research Proposals and National/International Collaboration 1. Contributions made to the proposal on Multi-Application Solar telescope (MAST) P. Venkatakrishnan & Team, submitted to PRL, July Principal Investigator, Pre-eruptive phase of solar filaments, of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) funded, Climate and Weather of Sun Earth System (CAWSES) project, March 2005-March Co-Investigator with Sara F. Martin (Helio Research, USA and 3 other collaborators: Collaborative analyses of the formation, activation and long-term slow rise of filaments as precursors to CMEs, for the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project USA, Sept Nov Co-investigator in Indo-French project Transient Phenomena in the Sun-Earth System CEFIPRA, Co-investigator for the NSF project Collaborative Research on Testing a New Concept for the Long-term Build-up to Coronal Mass Ejections, ATM (Sara Martin (PI) and 5 other collaborators). 6. Co-investigator for the Proposal to the NSF Program for Rapid Awards for Augmenting High Resolution Data for NSF Grant for Collaborative Research: Testing a Concept for the Long-Term Build-up to Coronal Mass Ejections And NSF SHINE Grant on How New Active Regions Trigger Erupting Filaments and CMEs Dec , (Sara Martin (PI) and 5 co-is). 7. Principal Investigator, Study of pre-eruptive and eruptive phase of filaments/prominences in EUV 17.5 nm using SWAP telescope on PROBA2 for the Guest Investigator program of PROBA2, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Collaborative work during September 25-October 8, 2011 Ongoing Collaborations: 1. External collaborator on COronal Mass Ejections and Solar Energetic Particles: forecasting the space weather impact (COMESEP),Principal InvestigatorI: Norma Bock Crosby (with 7 European and 1US Co- Investigators) ESA- FP7-SPACE (European Commission), Co-Investigator, Center for Computational Space Sciences, A proposal for a center of excellence, submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India Principal Investigator: Dr. Dibyendu Nandi, other Co-Investigators: R. K. Nayak, P. Subramanian, K. Sankarasubramanian, D. Banerjee, S.P. Rajaguru, Member of The International Study for Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST) program ISSTP, J. Zhang (Chair, USA), B. Vršnak (Co-Chair, Croatia), A. Asai (Japan), P. Gallagher (Ireland), A. Lara (Mexico), N. Lugaz (USA), C. Mostl (Austria), A. Rouillard (France), N. Srivastava (India), Y. Yermolaev (Russia), Y-M Wang (China), D. Webb (USA),

3 Research Papers reviewed for the following journals: Foreign: Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, The Astrophysical Journal, Solar Physics, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, Annales Geophysicae, Astrophysics and Space Science, Planetary and Space Science, Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate. Indian: Bulletin of Astronomical Society of India, Indian Journal of Physics, Pramana, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Indian Journal of Radio Physics Proposal Reviewed : Foreign: (i) for the scientific grant agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA) to support basic research project on Space Weather Prediction.- August 2010 (ii) Romanian Academy of Sciences July-August 2011 Indian: (i) CAWSES India Proposal (ii) Planex project proposals. Supervision of students: 1. Ph. D. students: 1 ( and ongoing 1) 2. Project associates: 2 3. Summer trainees/ Project students: 15 Observational Campaigns: LASCO Science planner at GSFC, October 1997 Scientist on-site for the Observation Campaign with the Dutch Open Telescope August 8-27, 2010, La Palma, Spain, for observations of solar filaments/prominences. Guest Investigator with PROBA2 during September October 8, 2011, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels. Guest Investigator, with PROBA2 selected for , Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels. Symposia/Meeting organised : Member, Organising Committee, Silver Jubilee Meeting of Udaipur Solar Observatory, September 2001 Member of the Local Organising Committee, International Lunar Conference, ILC-6, Udaipur, November 21-26, Convener of a session SH04 on Space Weather Research: Theory, Modeling and Prediction in Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM06) held during July 24-27, 2006 at Beijing, China Co-Convener of a session ST-26 on Propagation of CMEs in AOGS 2007 meeting held in Bangkok during July 30-August 4, 2007 Member of International Organizing Committee for WISER 2007 meeting held in Alexandria, Egypt, October 21-25, Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the Astronomical Society of India meeting ASI-2009 to be held in Bangalore, Co-Convener of a session ST2 on On the three dimensional morphology and dynamics of CMEs in EGU 2009 to be held in Vienna, during April 19-24, Chairperson of the poster-session of ST2 session at the EGU General Assembly, Member, National Advisory committee of the SERC school on Space Weather, IIG Mumbai April Poster Session Chair for the session ST5/NH8.5 in European Geophysical Union 2010, Vienna on Space Weather and its Effects on Terrestrial and Geo-Space Environments: Science and Applications. Session Chair at the Technical session, Conference for women in ISRO, NRSC, March 8, 2011 Session Chair, IUCAA workshop on the Physics of the solar transition region and corona, 6 th September,

4 Convener, Sessions ST6.1 & PSD12.21 on New and ongoing initiatives in ground-based solar observations EGU 2013, Vienna, April 7-12, 2013 Member, SOC, IAU symposium IAUS300, to be held in Paris, June, Scientific Visits/Symposia/ Colloquia/ Talks/Papers Presented (Last 5 years) 2008 Colloquium on Jan 29, 2008 at Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore, Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun in 3-D: Early Results from the Coronagraph COR1 aboard STEREO Talk at Solar Influences Data Center, Brussels, Belgium, November 6, 2008, Use of Statistical Models for Predicting Geo-effective Events Poster presentation at the Fifth European Space Weather week during Nov 17-21, 2008 at Brussels on Predictive statistical models for geo-effective events. Invited talk on Statistical studies on CMEs at the Evershed meeting at IIA, Bangalore, Dec 2-5, Presentation on Decadal Vision of Udaipur Solar Observatory, Jan 16, 2009, PRL, Ahmedabad Oral Presentation on Estimation of true speed and direction of propagation of CMEs using SECCHI/STEREO observations at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, to be held April 19-24, 2009 Presentation on 3D reconstruction of the leading edge of the May 20, 2007 partial halo CME at the STEREO3/SoHO22 meeting to be held in Bournemouth, England, April 27-May 1, Presentation on Solar origins of geoeffective events, at the CAWSES Phase II Planning meeting, NARL, Gadanki, July 9-11, 2009 Colloquium on September 23, 2009 at the Physical Research Laboratory, PRL, Ahmedabad, Coronal Mass Ejections: New views from STEREO The Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA), Perth Australia on 14 Jan 2010 on Coronal Mass Ejections: New views from STEREO 2. SERC School lectures on Space Weather, IIG Mumbai Apr 7-27, lectures (i) Coronal mass ejections (ii) Space Weather Prediction: Solar Perspective (iii) Use of statistical models for predicting geo-effective events 3. Automated Detection of Filaments and Their Disappearance Using Full-Disc H-alpha Images on 28 April 2010 at the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels. 4. Invited talk, Prediction of space weather based on a statistical model, EGU General Assembly 2010, 2-7 May, 2010 in Vienna, Austria. 5. Invited talk at the AOGS meeting July 5, 2010, on On the 3 D reconstruction of CMEs using SECCHI/STEREO observations, Hyderabad 6. Future Plans of Udaipur Solar Observatory presented at PRL on 22 July 2010 during Annual Review. 7. Solar Activity, Terrestrial Influences and Space Weather for the M Tech course at the UN school, Ahmedabad on August 4, Invited talks at Prominence Research Observations and Models workshop, La Palma, Canary Islands, Nov 30-Dec 2, 2010 (a)automated Detection of Filaments and Their Disappearance Using Full-Disk H alpha Images (b) Kinematics of Two Eruptive Prominences observed by EUVI/STEREO Invited talk at Space Climate symposium 4 on STEREO observations of CMEs: Kinematics and influence on space weather, Jan 17-21, Oral presentation at the Astronomical Society of India, on 3 D reconstruction and kinematics of eruptive prominences using STEREO observations, Feb 23-25, Oral presentation at the Asia Pacific Solar Physics Meeting, APSPM on Estimation of arrival time of CMEs from STEREO observations March 22-25, Invited talk on Solar Phenomena and their geoeffectiveness, CAWSES Workshop on Space Weather and Space Climate at PRL April AOGS meeting, August 8-12, 2011,Taipei, Taiwan 4

5 (a) Invited talk at the on 3D Reconstruction of CMES: Implications on Prediction of the Arrival Time (b) Oral Acceleration of CMEs and Prominences Observed from STEREO (ST16 session) Invited talk on Kinematics of two eruptive prominences observed from EUVI onboard STEREO, workshop on the Physics of the solar transition region and corona on 6 th September, 2011, IUCAA, Pune 6. Oral Presentation on Automated Detection of Filaments & Their Disappearance Using Full-Disc Hα Images, COMESEP project meeting, SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, October 6, Challenges on predicting the space weather, International workshop on Nano Physics and Astrophysics, Raipur, February 19-21, On the estimation of true speeds and arrival times of CMEs, COSPAR, Mysore, July Solar Activity, UN school MTech course, Orientation module Ahmedabad, August 9, CMEs and ICMEs, Invited Tutorial in ISSTP 2012, Pune, Nov 5-9, Recurrent eruptions of a large filament observed during August 2012, ISSTP 2012, Pune, Nov 5-9, On the estimation of true speeds and arrival times of CMEs, September 6, 2012., Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy BIRA-IASB, Brussels, Belgium. Synergistic Activities Coordinator, Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST) Project at USO since 2008-continuing Member, PDF committee of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, since 2011-continuing. Elected Councillor of the Executive Council, Astronomical Society of India for Member, Academic Committee of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, , Member, National Advisory Committee for SERC school on Space Weather at IIG, Mumbai, April Member of the Committee for Basu Award by the American Geophysical Union, 2008, 2009 Member, Library Committee of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, , continuing Member, committee for JRF selection, PRL, 2009, 2011 Teaching Experience Solar Physics Course to first year PhD students of PRL, in the years 2001, , Course on Solar Telescopes and Instrumentation to first year PhD students at PRL 2003 (Five lectures on Solar Telescopes and Seeing, Spectrographs, Magnetographs, Fabry-Perot based filtergraphs and Polarimeter) M.Sc. (Information & Technology) Course on Image processing techniques given at Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, August 2004, 10 lectures delivered. UN school on M Tech in Space Physics, Laboratory course on Spectral studies of the Sun, Udaipur, 2004, 2006, 2008 UN School on on M Tech in Space Physics : Course on Elements of Solar Physics, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, Ahmedabad Lectures in SERC school on space weather, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, 2010 (3 lectures) 5