Kushal Kumar Mahajan

Biography

Kushal Kumar Mahajan earned his BSc degree (1957) from the University of Jammu and Kashmir and MSc (1959) from Banaras Hindu University, after which he joined the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi in the Radio Science Division and worked under the supervision of AP Mitra to obtain his PhD degree from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. He worked as a post-doctoral Research Associate (1965-67) at Cornell University's incoherent scatter Radar Facility (installed at Arecibo, Puerto Rico) on ionospheric temperatures and densities, and also at the Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt (1967-69) as an NRC-NASA resident Research Associate, again on ionospheric temperatures and densities measured by the Langmuir probe on rockets and satellites. He returned to NPL (1969) where he worked for the next 30 years in the area of upper atmosphere/ionosphere of the earth and other planets. He headed the Radio and Atmospheric Sciences Division, NPL, for several years before he retired in 1999.

Research Interest

Radio, Atmospheric and Space Sciences