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A Brief Biography
J. Shukla was born in 1944 in a small village (Mirdha) in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, India. This village had no electricity, no roads or transportation, and no primary school building. Most of his primary school education was received under a large banyan tree. He passed from the S.R.S. High School, Sheopur, in the first class with distinction in Mathematics and Sanskrit. He was unable to study science in high school because none of the schools near his village included science education. His father, the late Shri Chandra Shekhar Shukla, asked him to read all the science books for classes 6 through 10 during the summer before he was admitted to the S.C. College, Ballia, to study science. After passing the twelfth grade from S.C. College, he went to Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.) where, at the age of 18, he passed BS (honors) with Physics, Mathematics, and Geology in the first class and then earned the MS in Geophysics in the first class in 1964. He received PhD in Geophysics from BHU in 1971 and ScD in Meteorology from MIT in 1976.
Selected Honors and Awards
2016: | Honorary Member, American Meteorological Society |
2015: | Member, Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change (PMCCC), India |
2012: | Padma Shri, National Award from the President of India |
2008: | Chairman, International Advisory Panel for Weather and Climate, India Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Commissioner on the Virginia Governor’s Commission on Climate Change |
2007: | Lead Author, IPCC Working Group 1 Report, Climate Change 2007 International Meteorological Organization (IMO) Prize |
2005: | Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) |
2004: | Scientist of the Year, Association of Indians in America (AIA) |
2001: | Walker Gold Medal of the Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) Member, WCRP Joint Scientific Committee |
1999: | Founded Gandhi College for women in a village in India |
1996: | Fellow, Indian Meteorological Society Associate Fellow, TWAS, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World |
1993: | Founded Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) |
1989: | Helped establish super computer center for monsoon forecasting, New Delhi |
1988: | Started weather and climate program at ICTP, Trieste, Italy |
1986: | Invited to lecture at the Pontifical Academy, Vatican, Italy |
1983: | Founded the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) |
1982: | Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal of NASA |
1979: | Chief Scientist, MONEX experiment in the Bay of Bengal |
Other: | Author/co-author of 200 scientific papers; Editor/Contributor: 5 books |
Other: | PhD thesis adviser for 20 students at MIT, U. of Maryland, and GMU |
Important Recognitions and Awards
- Shukla Symposium on Predictability in the Midst of Chaos
- Shukla Receives 2012 Padma Shri Award from the Government of India
- Shukla Awarded 52nd IMO Prize by World Meteorological Organization
- Shukla Part of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-Winning IPCC
- Shukla Awarded Carl Gustaf Rossby Medal
- Shukla Establishes Gandhi College in his Native Village in Ballia
- Shukla Profile in The New York Times
- Meeting Jule Charney
- Photo Gallery
More Information
- Professional Biography (MS word doc)
- Dr. Shukla’s Curriculum Vitae (Short version): (HTML format) (PDF file) (MS Word doc)
- Dr. Shukla’s Curriculum Vitae (Complete Version): (PDF file) (MS Word doc)
- Dr. Shukla’s Publication List: (Publication List)
- Dr. Shukla’s Profile at Google Scholar (Google Scholar)
- WMO Bulletin Interview (MS word doc)