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Professor Padma Shukla is a world renowned theoretical plasma physicist, with wide ranging research interest in multidisciplinary sciences including basic and nonlinear physics, nonlinear geophysical flows, atmospheric physics and environmental sciences, soft condensed matter physics and matter wave solitons, high-energy density physics, nonlinear phenomena in quantum systems, plasma astrophysics and neutrinoplasma physics, plasma-based high-energy charged particle acceleration, intense photon-photon and photonplasma interactions, and fusion physics.

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Professor Padma Kant Shukla was born in 1950 in the village Tulapur, Uttar Pradesh (UP), India and was educated there. After his Ph. D. in Physics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi, India at the age of 22, he moved to Umea University (UmU), Sweden in January 1972, and obtained his second doctorate degree in Theoretical Plasma Physics from UmU in 1975. He has lived in Bochum, Germany since 1973. He has worked in the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany since January 1973, where he holds a permanent RUB International Chair (RUB Distinguished Physics Professor).

He has honorary doctorates fromthe Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK), a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and an Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (Trieste, Italy). Professor Padma Kant Shukla has been awarded the highly reputed 2005 APS Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach, honored an 2011 APS Outstanding Referee, and is recipient of the prestigious 2006 Gay-Lussac/Humboldt Prize from the French Ministry of Education and Research.

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