Vinod KrishanVinod Krishan received her PhD from the University of Tennessee. She was Senior Professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, and held visiting positions at the Indian Institute of Science, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Clifornia, the National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, the University of Tokyo and the Raman Research Institute, India. She has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience and has published more than 100 research papers in national and international journals. She has taught courses on plasma astrophysics, quantum mechanics and statistical physics at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her major research interests have been in the areas of space and astrophysical plasmas. Read More Read Less