Dr R Srinivasan was born on January 17, 1946. He
received his Doctorate in Electronics in 1983 from Indian Institute of Science
(IISc.), Bangalore. After serving in National Aerospace Laboratories,
Baangalore, for a decade, he joined Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
in 1985 where he has been closely associated with the design and development of
electronics and instrumentation system for astrophysics experiments.
Dr. Srinivasan is responsible for development of the CCD based camera systems
for astrophysics studies and micro thermal data acquisition system for the
Schmidt and 2-meter telescopes at Hanle. He has been associated with the joint
development of Liquid Nitrogen Dewar for CCD cameras and the Linear Array
CCD camera system for Spectro-heliograph and 2-M telescope project. As a team
member, he was actively involved in the solar eclipse expeditions held in July
1991 and October 1995. Dr Srinivasan has about 23 technical publications and 11
major conference proceedings to his credit.
Dr R Srinivasan is presented the ASI Award for the year 2000 in recognition of
his significant contribution to Space Science and Applications.
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