Professor Padma Kant Shukla: Professional Memberships    
--Corresponding Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
-Foreign Member of Physics Class of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
--Foreign Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
--Associate Fellow/Member of Physics Class of TWAS-The Academy of Sciences for Developing World,Trieste, Italy
--Member of the Convent (University Parliament), Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany, 1987--1995
--Life member of the Plasma Science Society of India
--Member &  Fellow, American Physical Society,  USA
--Member &  Fellow, Institute of Physics (IoP, London), UK
--Member of IoP Panel for Electing Fellows, Institute of Physics (IoP, London), UK
--Associate Member, Centre for Interdisciplinary Plasma Science,  MPE & MPP Garching (Germany).
-- Member, IUPAP C.16 Commission on Plasma Physics, since 2002
-Chairman, IUPAP Commission C.16 on Plasma Physics, 2008-2011
-Secretary, IUPAP Commission C.16  on Plasma Physics, 2006-2008
-Associate Member, IUPAP C.17  Commission on Quantum Electronics, 2006-2009
--Member of the American Geophysical Union, USA
-Distinguished Guest (VIP) of The Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
-Member of the ESF Pool of Reviewers, The European Science Foundation



1.   Advisory Board Member of the International Topical Conferences on Research Trends in Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Fluids and Plasmas; held at La Jolla International School of Physics: The Institute for Advanced Physics Studies, La Jolla, CA (USA), February 18--20, 1991.

2.    Advisory Board Member of the International Workshop on Laser-Plasma Interactions, sponsored by the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste (Italy) and Chinese Academy of Science; held at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Academia Sinica, Shanghai, (China), November 9--12, 1992.

3.    Co-organizer of the Spring College on Plasma Physics at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy), 1989-1993.

4.     Advisory Board Member of the International Workshop on Coherence and Turbulence, held at the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev (Ukraine), September 20--29, 1994.

5.    Co-Director, International Workshop on Laser Plasma Interaction, Goa (India), March 6-10, 1995.

6.     Advisory  Board Member of the General Conference of the EU Human Capital and Mobility Network and INTAS Network: Nonlinear Phenomena in Microphysics of Collisionless Plasmas. Application to Space and Laboratory Plasmas; held at La Badine, Presqu'ile de Giens, Hy`eres (France), May 02-05, 1995.

7.    Advisory Board Member of 1995 La Jolla Summer School on Plasma Physics and Technology, organized by La Jolla International School of Physics: The Institute for Advanced Physics Studies, La Jolla, California (U. S. A.), August 8--18, 1995.

8.  Director, International Topical Workshop on Plasma Physics: Coherent Processes in Nonlinear Media. International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy), October 16--20, 1995.

9.     Member of the Prize Committe for the Young Physicist Medal and Certificate Award of the International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics, since 1995-present.

10.    Member of Organizing Committee of International Symposium on Cooperation of Plasma Science and Technology. The United Nations University, Tokyo (Japan), September 16--18, 1996.

11.     Chairman, International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Goa (India), October 21--25, 1996.

12.    Chairman and Director, International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: New Perspectives of Collective Effects. Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy), November 10--14, 1997.

13.    Member of the International Committee on Non-conventional Plasmas with Noise and Chaos: Niigata symposium (Japan), 31 August- 1 September (1997).

14.    Member of the  Program Committee of The International Conference on Plasma Physics (ICPP), Prague (Czech Republic), June 29-July 03, 1998.

15.     Co-Chairman and President of the Advisory Board of the 2nd International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Hakone (Japan), 24-28 May 1999.

16.     Director of the International Symposium on Nonlinear Plasma Science, U. Algarve, Faro (Portugal), 04 September 1999.

17.    Chairman and Convener of The International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: New Frontiers of Nonlinear Sciences, U. Algarve, Faro (Portugal), 06--10 September 1999.

18.    Member of  the Scientific Program Committee of the International Conference on the Physics of Space, Meudon (France), 10--15 January 2000.

19.    Member of  the Scientific Program Committee of 8th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), 25--28 April 2000.

20.    Chairman and Co-Director of The International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: Colloidal Plasma Science, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 03--07 July 2000.

21.    Member of the Scientific Program and Organizing Committees of the Symposium  ``Dusty Plasmas and Active Experiments" during the 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Warsaw (Poland), 16--23 July 2000.

22.     Member of the Organizing Committee of the 11th International Toki Conference, Toki (Japan), 5--8 December 2000.

23.     Cospar Associate, Committee on Space Research, COSPAR, France, since 2001.

24.     Co-organizer of the European Workshop Space Plasma Phenomena at the Collisional/Non-collisional Interpaly, Observatoire de Meudon (France), 18-29 June 2001.

25.     Chairman and Convener of The International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: New Plasma Horizons, U.  Algarve, Faro (Portugal), 3-7 September 2001.

27.     Member of the  International Advisory Committee of the International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP), since 2002.

28.     Member of the International Program Committee of the 11th International Congress on Plasma Physics, Sydney (Australia), 15-19 July 2002.

29.     Member of the International Advisory Committee of the World Space Environment Forum (WSEF 2002), Adelaide University (Australia), 20-24 July 2002.

30.     Co-Director/Convener of The International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, Banglore (India), 9-14 December 2002.

31.     Chairman and Convener of The International Conference of The International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics: Complex Plasmas in the New Millennium, Santorini Island (Greece), 8-12 September 2003.

32.     Co-Director of the International Workshop on Theoretical Plasma Physics, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 5-16 July 2004.

33.     Member of the International Programme Committee of the International Conference on Dusty Plasmas in Applications, Odessa (Ukraine), 25-28 August 2004.

34.     Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the 4th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans (France), 13-17 June 2005.

35.     Co-Director of the Autumn College on Plasma Physics, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 5-30 September 2005.

36.     Member of the  Programme Committee of the European Physical Society  Conference on Plasma Physics, Rome (Italy), 2006.

37.     Co-Director of the International Workshop on New Frontiers of Plasma Science, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 21 August-1 September 2006.

38.    Member of the Scientific Committee of the International BG-URSI School and Workshop on Waves and Turbulence Phenomena in Space Plasmas, Kiten (Bulgaria), 1-9 July, 2006.

39.      Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Unconventional Plasmas, Eindhoven (The Netherlands), 14-16 August, 2006.

40.      Member of the Selection Committee for the APS Nicholson Medal for 2006.

41.    Member of Program Committee of the EPS Satellite Meeting "Dust in  Fusion  Plasmas"  (DFP/EPS 2007), Warsaw, Poland, 8-10 July 2007.

42.     Co-Director of the Summer College on Plasma Physics, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 30 July- 24 August 2007.

43.      Member of International Committee for XII Latin American Workshop on  Plasma Physics, Caracas, Venezuela, 17-21 September 2007.

44.     Member of the International Program Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Dusty Plasma Physics in Applications, Odessa, Ukraine, 26-30 August 2007.

45.    Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the 5th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Azores (Portugal), 18-23 May 2008.

46.   Member of Program Committee of the International Conference "Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Safety" (AIS-2008), Rusian Academy of  Sciences, Kalininigrad, 7-12 July 2008.

47.    Co-Director of the International Workshop on Frontiers of Modern Plasma Physics, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 14-25 July 2008.

48.     Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Conference on Frontiers of Physics
(ICFP 2009), Kathmandu, Nepal, 2-5 June 2009.

49.    Member of the Program Committee of the International Workshop on Laser and Plasma Accelerators (LPWA09), Kardamili, Greece, 22-26 June 2009.

50.    Co-Director of the Summer College on Plasma Physics, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 10 August- 28 August 2009.

51.    Co-Director of the International Advanced Workshop on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 5-16 July 2010.

52.     Member of the International Advisory Board of the 11th International Symposium on the Frontiers of
Fundamental and Computational Physics (FFP11), Paris, France, 6-9 July 2010.

53.    Member of the Program Committee of the 2010 International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2010), Santiago, Chile, 8-13 August 2010.

54.     Member of the International Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Dusty Plasma Physics in Applications, Odessa, Ukraine, 26-30 August 2010.

55.     Member of the International Astrophysics Forum Alpbach 2011: Frontiers in Space Environment Research, Alpbach, Austria, 20-24  June 2011.

56.    Co-Director of the ITER-IAEA-ICTP Advanced Workshop on Fusion and Plasma Physics, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 4-14 October 2011.

57.     Member of the International Advisory Board of the 12th International Symposium on the Frontiers of
Fundamental and Computational Physics (FFP12), University of Udine, Italy, 16-18 November 2011.

Updated 7 March 2011