FACULTY BIO

Areas of Expertise

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PLASMA PHYSICS (SPACE PLASMA, GEOMAGNETISM, SPACE WEATHER)

Education

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B.Sc. (Physcics Hons), M,Sc, (Physics), PhD (Physics)

Biography

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I am currently working as a full-time Professor at University of Bahrain (UoB) in the Department of Physics, College of Science. My specialization is Space plasma Physics and I work in the allied field of geomagnetism, viz., Space weather, Sun-Earth relationship. I joined UoB on 15th January, 20022. Earlier, I had been working as a full-time Professor at Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai, which is affiliated to University of Mumbai in India. There I was heading twelve geomagnetic observatories and two Indian Antarctic stations. I have successfully guided two students for their Ph.D. degree and have more than 70 research papers in high impact journal to my credit. I have organized (convened and chaired) five international conferences and presented research articles in numerous national and international conferences. I have received honours and awards on various occasions including highly prestigious PPARC post-doctoral fellowship from University of Leicester, United Kingdom, Certificate of Excellence in space science from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Honorary member of Research and Recommendation Committee (RRC), Physics of University of Mumbai, Fellow of Indian Geophysical Union and best paper awards twice in the National Space Science Symposium (NSSS) organized by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India. I have successfully handled in-house as well as externally funded projects sponsored by DST, India and am involved in various bilateral/ multilateral international collaborations. I am in the reviewer's panels of several reputed international journals, such as Advances of Space Research, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Science), Annales Geophysicae, Frontiers of Space Sciences etc.

Achievements

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• PPARC Post-doctoral Fellowship University of Leicester, United Kingdom 2003
• Member, Indian Geophysical Union Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad 2013
• Fellow, Indian Geophysical Union Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad 2013
• Certificate of Excellence in Space Science Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia 2005
• Subject expert and member, Research and Recognition Task Force, University of Mumbai University of Mumbai 2016
• Best paper award paper ""Role of ionosphere in modulating Pi2 pulsations"" in NSSS-2014 at Dibrugarh, Assam, India NSSS 2014
• Best paper award paper "" Variations of frequency and power of Schumann Resonance observed at Indian stations "" in NSSS-2008 at Ooty, India NSSS 2008
• Associate Fellow of Advance HE, awarded by Unit for Teaching Excellence and Leadership (UTEL), University of Bahrain in 2024.

Affiliations

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN

Grants & Contracts Awarded

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Publications & Presentations

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Recent Publications:

1. Sinha, Shipra, G. Vichare, and Ashwini K. Sinha, (2024), Hemispheric comparison of solar flare associated cosmic noise absorption (SCNA) from high latitude stations: Maitri (70.75°S, 11.75°E) and Abisko (68.4°N, 18.9°E), Front. Astron. Space Sci. 11:1347874. doi:10.3389/fspas.2024.1347874
2.  Adhitya, P., B. Jayashree, Ashwini K. Sinha, and G. Vichare, (2024), Examining the Applicability of Direct Analytic Method (DAM) to Normal Modes of Poloidal Oscillations under Symmetric and Asymmetric Boundary Conditions, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics (Accepted for publication)
3. Sinha, Shipra, G. Vichare, and Ashwini K. Sinha, (2024), Differences in the characteristics and triggering mechanisms of two successive AL index depressions on 21st January 2005, Journal of Earth System Science (Accepted for Publication)
4. T Bozóki, G Sátori, E Williams, A Guha, Y Liu, P Steinbach, A Leal, M Herein, M Atkinson, CD Beggan, E DiGangi, A Koloskov, A Kulak, J LaPierre, DK Milling, J Mlynarczyk, A Neska, A Potapov, T Raita, R Rawat, R Said, AK Sinha, Y Yampolski, (2023), Day-to-day Quantification of Changes in Global Lightning Activity Based on Schumann Resonances, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, issue 11, e2023JD038557. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038557 2019, 124(11), pp. 9537-9551
5.  K Jeeva, AK Sinha, Gopi K Seemala, SD Pawar, A Guha, AK Kamra, ER Williams, M Ravichandran, (2023), The Global Representativeness of Fair-Weather Atmospheric Electricity Parameters From the Coastal Station Maitri, Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, issue 9, e2022JD037696 https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037696
6. Adhitya, P., Nosé, M., Bulusu, J., Vichare, G., and Sinha, A. K., (2022) Observation of ionospheric Alfven resonator with double spectral resonance structures at low latitude station, Shillong (dipole L=1.08 ). Earth Planets Space, 74, 169. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-022-01730-2
7. Kikuchi T, Araki T, Hashimoto KK, Ebihara Y, Tanaka T, Nishimura Y, Vichare G, Sinha AK, Chum J, Hosokawa K, Tomizawa I, Tanaka Y and Kadokura A (2022) Instantaneous Achievement of the Hall and Pedersen–Cowling Current Circuits in Northern and Southern Hemispheres During the Geomagnetic Sudden Commencement on 12 May 2021., Front. Astron. Space Sci. 9:879314. doi:10.3389/fspas.2022.879314
8. Shipra Sinha, Geeta Vichare, A.K. Sinha, (2022), A comparative analysis of the role of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and sudden impulse (SI) in triggering a substorm, Advances in Space Research, ISSN 0273-1177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2022.08.037

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

1. Shipra Sinha, Ashwini Kumar Sinha, Geeta Vichare, Categorization of Substorm Triggering Mechanism based on the Ground Observations, 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 16-24 July 2022, Athens, Greece.
2. A Pavithran, AK Sinha, J Bulusu, M Nose, G Vichare, P Adhitya, Characteristics of Ionospheric Alfvén Resonator (IAR) observed at Shillong (L= 1.13), 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 16-24 July 2022, Athens, Greece.
3.  Yakun, Liu et al., AC Global Circuit Variation over 19 Consecutive days, AGU Fall Meeting 2022, 12-16 December 2022, Chicago, USA.
4. Jose, Tacza et al., Multi-station observation of periodic variations in long-term Schumann Resonance records, EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna, Austria