Curriculum Vitae of DR
Curriculum Vitae of DR. SHAKEEL AHMED

 

Born:             September 25, 1958

Nationality:      Indian

Passport:          No. E 1189349

Issued on 18-02-2002 at Hyderabad, India, expires on 17-02-2012
Address for Correspondence
Indo-French Centre for Groundwater Research
N.G.R.I., Uppal Road, HYDERABAD‑500 606, INDIA
Ph/Fax: +91 40 23434657 (Office) 23434824 (Res)
Fax: +91 40 23434651, Cell +919849919496
e-mail:  shakeelifcgr@gmail.com, shakeel_25@yahoo.co.uk & shakeelahmed@ngri.res.in
 
Educational Qualifications:

Degree/Certificate

Year

University/Institution

Subject/Specialization

Class/Grade

Bachelor of Science

(B.Sc.)

1977

Benaras Hindu University, India

Physics, Mathematics and Geology

I

Master of Science & Technology (M.Sc.Tech.)

1980

..do..

Exploration Geophysics

I

Title of the Master dissertation: Analogue Modeling of Aquifers

U.G. Diploma

1981

..do..

Arabic

I

P.G. diploma

1985

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, France

Geostatistics

--

D.E.A. (Pre-Ph.D.)

1985

..do..

Geostatistics

Honorable

Doctorate (Ph.D.)

1987

..do..

Hydrology & Quantitative Hydrogeology

Honorable

Title of the thesis: Estimation des Transmissivités des Aquifères par Methodes Geostatistiques Multivariables et Resolution Indirecte du Problème Inverse, In French (Aquifer Transmissivity estimation by Multivariate Geostatistics Methods and Indirect solution of Inverse Problem)

(Thesis was published in "Microfiche" by M/S Atelier Nationale de Reproduction des Theses, Universite des Sciences Socieles, Grenobles, France)

Dr. Ahmed’s thesis was evaluated by top most geostaticians of the world and the Jury was chaired by none else than the father of Geostatistics, Prof. George Matheron. 

 

 
 
 
Present Position/Responsibility (Scientific):
  1. Leading two research activity in an in-house project under the 11th Five Year Plan of the Govt. of India during 2007-2012.
  2. The project aims in evaluating the aquifer system in the middle and lower Ganga basins and delineate the Arsenic contaminated zones to design safe pumping of potable water for rural areas.
  3. Heading the Indo-French Centre for Groundwater Research as Team Leader (India): an International Research Centre set-up at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad in collaboration with BRGM, France for the advanced research in groundwater.
  4. The collaboration aims at carrying out the advanced research to investigate weathered-fractured coupled hard rock aquifers and assess their potential and quality for adaptive groundwater management in such areas.
  5. Leading an Indo-French Network project on Water Sciences (P2R) funded by the Govts of India and France.
  6. An inter-governmental project mainly to interact and discuss the current areas of research in the field of water sciences and bring out new and challenging ideas for collaborative research in the field of groundwater.
    1. Leading several short term projects on Hydrogeology for assessment and management of groundwater in hard rock aquifers.

     

Present Position/Responsibility (Professional):

  1. Elected Vice President of the Muslim Association for Advancement of Science (MAAS)
  2. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Chemical and Environmental Research.
  3. Chairman of the International Working Group on Groundwater Monitoring Network Optimization: Geostatistical Approach sponsored by the UNESCO.
  4. Convener of the South East Asia Working Group on Hard Rock Hydrogeology of IAH.
  5. Ex-Associate Editor of the Hydrogeology Journal (Springer)
  6. Member of the Steering Committee of Asian G-WADI program of UNESCO
  7. Appointed Coordinator of the Indo-Tunisian Collaboration in water sciences

Employment details: 

Post Held

Institution

 From

To

Scientist B

National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

11-11-1982

10-11-1987

Scientist C

..do..

11-11-1987

10-11-1990

Scientist E I   (Asst. Director)

..do..

11-11-1990

10-11-1995

Scientist E II (Asst. Director)

National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

11-11-1995

10.11.2000

Scientist F     (Dy. Director)

..do..

11.11.2000

 Till date

Scientist G     (Director's Grade)

..do..

11.11.2000

 Till date

       

Current Research Interest and Specialization:

  1. Application of Geostatistical methods in data collection network design and parameter estimation of underground reservoirs.
  2. Numerical Modeling of aquifers for assessment and management of Groundwater Resources particularly in weathered-fractured coupled system.
  3. Simulation of convective mass transport in aquifers.
 
Experience: About 29 year's research experience in Groundwater Hydrology
 
List of the major work carried out:
Numerical Modeling of the aquifer systems.

 

  1. Alluvial unconfined aquifer in the inter-stream region in U.P.
  2. Alluvial confined aquifer in Neyveli aquifer system, Tamilnadu
  3. Limestone aquifer at Kuteshwar, Jabalpur dist., M.P.
  4. Weathered-Fractured granitic aquifers in AP
 
Aquifer parameter estimation using Theory of Regionalized Variables- Geostatistics
  1. Chalk aquifer in Northern France
  2. Alluvial aquifer in Madjerda valley  in North-western Tunisia
  3. Alluvial aquifer in Rhin valley in Eastern France
  4. Weathered rock aquifer in Noyil basin, Tamilnadu, India
  5. Weathered rock aquifer in Ananthpur dist., A.P., India
 
Installation of Modeling software NEWSAM and NEWVAR
On VAX-MS,  NOS-VE Cyber system,  PC and Workstation
 
Additional application of Geostatistics
  1. Testing reliability of Geohydrological data
  2. Optimal data collection Network design
  3. Solution to the Inverse Problem
  4. Use Geological soft data
 
Application of Radial Basis Function
 
Study of weathered-fractured granitic aquifers for quantitative and qualitative assessment of the resources including numerical modeling under a prestigious Indo-French collaborative project sponsored by the IFCPAR, New Delhi.
 
Study of Fluoride contamination in groundwater in hard rock regions and their migration as a pilot project of UNESCO
 
Development of Decision Support Tool for Groundwater Management (DST-GW): A predictive tool that work on groundwater balance on global watershed scale and also predict based on present as well as the extended scenarios. The tool presently works on the MS-Excel environment and is developed for granitic over-exploited aquifers.
 
Delineation and regionalization of Arsenic contaminated groundwater zones and designing of suitable pumping schemes for groundwater management in middle and lower Ganga basin.
 

Computer codes (in fortran 77 with buplot graphic support) developed:

1.        PLAYG: A graphic interactive software using modified variogram formula to simultaneous calculation and modeling a variogram or cross-variogram. The software is extremely useful for the data collected on the isolated points.

2.       KOUED: For cross-validation and estimation of a parameter either on regular uniform grid or on isolated points using the methods of Ordinary Kriging, Kriging with an external drift and Universal Kriging.

3.        RBFE: For cross-validation and estimation of a parameter using a number of Radial Basis Functions.

4.       KRIGNET: To optimize a data collection network based on a pre-set Kriging estimation variance.

5.       SAMG: It helps prepare the extensive input file to the aquifer modeling software NEWSAM and NEWVAR using the minimum field data and the execution options.

 

Scientific Output:   Research Papers: » 58,    Technical Reports:  15

Software Package: 5, Proceedings/Books Edited/reviewed: 6
 

Award/Honors:       

 

Recipient of ‘MAAS Young Scientist Award” for 1996 by the The Muslim Association for the Advancement of Science, India.

 

 
Recipient of International Prize for Water Science for the year 2004 awarded by the Cannes Water Symposium, France.
Recipient of National Mineral Award 2006 in Groundwater awarded by the Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India

Languages Known:

English, French, Hindi and Urdu (fluent in read, write and speak), Arabic  (read and write)

Teaching/Faculty Positions: Have been among the Teaching faculty of the following Organizations during various short-term courses/ Workshops

1.      Regional Centre for Urban Water Management, Tehran, Iran

2.      Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

3.      Geological Survey of India, Southern Region, Hyderabad, India

4.      Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, Hyderabad, India

5.      Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore, India

6.      National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad

7.      A.P. Groundwater Department, Hyderabad

8.      Centre for Geostatistics, NMDC, Ltd., Hyderabad, India

9.      Rajiv Gandhi National Groundwater Training and Research Institute, Raipur, India

 

Theses supervised   (Doctoral: 5, M.Tech: 1, B.Tech: 6, DEA in French: 7)

  1. “Hydrogelogy of Fissured christalline hard rocks covered with thick weathered rocks in Monsoon regions” by Ms. Carine Engerrand, Ph.D. thesis, awarded by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2002.
  2. "Conceptualization and Optimal data collection for simulating flow regime in weathered-fractured aquifers for groundwater management" by Mr. Dewashsish Kumar, Ph.D. thesis awarded by the Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 2004.
  3. “Etude de l’écoulement d’eau à travers la zone non saturée à l’échelle du bassin versant d’une systéme d’aquifère de socle. Application à l‘évaluation de la recharge du bassin versant de Maheshwaram, Inde” by Mr. Devaraj de Condappa, Ph.D. thesis awarded by the Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I, France 2005.
  4. “Characterization of crystalline hard rock aquifers through geological and hydrogeological methods” by Mr. Faisal Kamal Zaidi, Ph.D. Thesis awarded by Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, 2006.
  5. “Contribution of Geophysical investigations in Estimating Hydrogeological regime of the Aquifers in hard rock Region”, by Mr. Subash Chandra, Ph.D. Thesis awarded by Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 2006
  6. “Geophysics and geostatistics: an integrated approach for characterizing and monitoring the unsaturated zone” by Ms. Tanvi Arora, Ph.D. degree awarded by the Osmania University, 2007.
  7. “Optimization of Groundwater Monitoring Networks Using Geostatistics” by Mr. Aadil Nabi, Ph.D. degree awarded by the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 2008.
  8. “Factors Controlling for Assessment & Risk Management of Excessive Fluoride in Hard Rock Aquifer in Maheshwaram watershed, AP” by Mr. Surendra Atal, PhD degree awarded from Osmania University, 2009.
  9. Assessment of groundwater pollution from distributed sources in hard rock formations, by Haris H. Khan, Registered in Osmania University, Ph.D. Thesis writing in progress.
  10. Assessing groundwater quality in hard rock aquifers: Vulnerability of contaminations under the climate change, by Ms. Visahono Zaphu, Registered in Osmania University, Research in progress (Registered in 2007).
  11. Determination of anthropogenic pollution in groundwater using Geophysical methods, by Mr. Fazel Taras (Iran) Registered in Osmania University, Research in progress (Registered 2008).
  12. Evaluation of Groundwater Renewability under polluting Environment and Determining its Indicators for Planning and Management, by Ms. Sarah, Registered in 2009, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
  13. Analyzing groundwater components through geo-spatial techniques and assessing uncertainties in their estimation, by Ms. Mehnaz Rashid, Registered in 2009, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
  14. Various impacts of Climate variability on the hydrological cycle: Ecology, Agriculture and socio-economic impacts, by Ms. Kissa Fatima, Registered in Osmania University, Hyderabad in 2009.
  15. Hydrogeology and Water resources assessment of Karst regions of India, by Mr. Farooq Ahmad Dar, Registered at the University of Hyderabad in 2009.
  16. Exploring the scale effects in hard rock hydrogeology through a detailed experiment, by Mr. Muneer Ahmad, being registered at the Osmania University, Hyderabad.
  17. Geophysical signature of pollutant transport in hard rock aquifers, by Mr. N. Tesfaye (Ethiopea), under CSIR-TWAS fellowship to be registered in Osmania University, Hyderabd.

Doctoral Theses under supervision: Eight

Supervised Research work of CSN (under French National Program):  Three

 

Member of the Learned Societies:      

  1. Fellow, Geological Society of India (L:1362)
  2. Muslim Association for Advancement of Science (Member of the Governing Council)
  3. International Association of Hydrogeologists
  4. International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 
  5. Assoc of Geoscientists for International Development

Scholarship/Recognition:

  1. National Loan Scholarship, Govt. of India, during 1973-74 and 1977-79
  2. Shakespeare’s Scholarship for the year 1974-75.
  3. Post Graduate Merit Scholarship, University Grant Commission, during 1979-80
  4. Junior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, during 1981-82
  5. Doctoral Research Scholarship, Govt. of France, during 1984-87
  6. Obtained 3 years Merit promotion from Scientist C to Scientist E1, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad during 1993-94.
  7. Post Doctoral Fellowship of Govt. of France during 1997-98, 2000 & 2001.
  8. Sr. Project Research Fellow, IWMI project on Groundwater Governance in Asia
Seminar/Workshop Organized:
  1. International Workshop, IGW-89 on “Develolpement of appropriate methodologies for groundwater development and management in developing countries”, during Feb. 28 – March 4, 1989 at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India as Organizing Joint Secretary.
  2. Commonwealth Science Council’s workshop on “Rural Drinking Water” during Sept. 1991 at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India as Convener.
  3. IAH sponsored International workshop on “Monitoring and recharge estimation” during January 19-21, 1994, at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India as IAH representative.
  4. Indo-French workshop on “Collaboration in water science and technology” during March 22-23, 1999 at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India as Organizing Secretary.
  5. Kick-off Indo-French workshop on “Hard rock hydrogeology” during June 19-21, 2001 at the IFCGR, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India as Convener.
  6. 5th Anniversary of the IFCGR and one day workshop on Hard rock Hydrogeology, March 24, 2005 at NGRI, Hyderabad
  7. A 2 days workshop for Launching the project SUSTWATER funded by the EC under Asia Pro Eco Scheme (April 2006 to March 2008) at Hyderabad, June 8-9, 2006.
  8. A 2 days National Seminar on “Notable Research in Earth Sciences for the Socio-economic development of the Nation”, February 19-20, 2007 at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad as Organizing Secretary, sponsored by the ONGC Ltd.
  9. International Workshop of the project SUSTWATER, March 3-5, 2008 at IFCGR, NGRI, Hyderabad to discuss the outcome of the project and transfer the technology to end users.
  10. Indo-French workshop on Water Science and Agronomy sponsored by INRA, France, March 12-14, 2009, NGRI, Hyderabad.
 

Membership of Scientific/Technical committees:

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  1. Member of the working group on “Integrated & Sustainable Water  Resources Management by the Govt. of AP
  2. Member of the FICCI Water Committee
  3. Member of the Technical Coordination Working Group of AP for WENEXA-II, USAID funded project.
  4. Secretary of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the UNESCO-IHP Workshop on Modeliing in Hydrogeology, Dec. 2-7, 2001, Chennai, India.
  5. Secretary of the Scientific Committee of the International Groundwater Conference, Feb. 20-22, 2002, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India.
  6. Member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Conference on “Hydrology of the Mediterranean and Semi-arid regions”, April 1-4, 2003, Montpellier, France.
  7. Member of the organizing committee, workshop on “The water crisis-Hope and Action for humanities future”, NGRI, Hyderabad, November, 2002.
  8.   Member of the National Advisory Committee of the International conference on “Hydrological Perspectives for sustainable development”, Feb. 23-25, 2005, IIT, Roorkee, India.
  9. Member of International Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Conference on “Water Resources in the 21st Century” December 6-8, 2005, Cairo, Egypt.
  10. Member of the Advisory Committee for the Seminar on “Modern Trends in Groundwater Exploration, Conservation and Protection”, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India during Feb 25-27, 2005.
  11. Member of the Organizing Committee, International Conference of “Hydrology and Watershed Management: Improving the water productivity in Agriculture” December 2006, at JNTU, Hyderabad, India.
  12. Member of the Scientific Committee, International Conference and 150Th Anniversary of Darcy’s law, Dijon, France, May 29 to June 2, 2006.

Visits/Research Experience abroad:
FRANCE
  1. Oct. 1984 to Dec. 1987: Carried out doctoral research at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris (Centre de Geostatistics and Centre d’Informatique Geologique), Fontainebleau and obtained degrees of D.E.A. and Doctorate. Participated in the (i) International Seminar on "Stochastic approach to Sub-surface flow", at Montvillargene, June 4-6, 1985 and (ii) Journee de Geostatistics, June 16-17, 1987.
  2. Sept. 1988: Installation of a few geostatistical software at the Centre d’Informatique Geologique, ENSMP, Fontainebleau, developed during doctoral research and participation in the 3rd International Geostatistical Congress at Avignon, Sept 4-9.
  3. July 1989: Discussion on the advanced research on simulating flow in low permeability rock aquifers particularly in situation of coupled weathered and fractured aquifer system at the Centre d’Informatique Géologique, Fontainebleau.
  4. Nov. 1996 to Jan 1997: Carried out training in advanced aquifer modeling techniques and preparation of a few models using the software NEWSAM. The software was brought and installed at NGRI.
  5. Dec. 1997 to Jan 1998: Development of a few additional software to the modeling software and some discussion regarding research work to be carried out by students from ENSMP, France to NGRI and  from NGRI to ENSMP/UPMC, France.
  6. April to May 2000: Discussion on going collaboration and formulation of new projects for the newly opened Indo-French center at Hyderabad.
  7. Nov. to Dec. 2000: Discussion on future scientific work on the collaborative project on hard rock hydrogeology.
  8. Nov. 2001: Discussion on the progress of the collaborative work and finalization of a doctoral thesis of a French student who has carried out the doctoral research in India.
  9. May 2002: Aquifer modeling studies of the Maheshwaram watershed under the Indo-French collaborative project.
  10. Sept. 2002: Discussion and review of the progress of the IFCGR and extension of MoU between NGRI and BRGM.
  11. April 2003: Discussion on the progress of the collaborative project and finalization of the results.
  12. December 2003: Meeting with BRGM Orleans and IPGP, Paris for collaborative research. Development of a model to investigate the features of MARTHE, aquifer modeling code.
  13. Oct-Nov. 2004: Meeting at BRGM Orleans for progress of IFCGR and review of the MoU and visiting IPGP, Sisyphe, and CIG, Fontainebleau.
  14. April 17 – 23, 2005: Meeting with Prof. G de Marsily of UPMC, Dr. Ledoux of ENSMP and participation in the Jury of a PhD viva at Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.
  15. June 29 – July 3, 2005: Receiving the trophy for the International Prize for Water Sciences presented during a ceremony at the 7th Cannes Water Symposium, Cannes, France.
  16. May 29 –June 6, 2006: Participating in the 150th Anniversary of Darcy law at Dijon and discussion for further collaboration with LEGOS, Toulouse and CEREGE, Aix en Province.
  17. Sept. 24 – Oct. 4, 2006: Participating in UNESCO workshop on Groundwater Indicator and meeting at several collaborating organizations in France.
  18. Sept. 02 – 10, 2007: Various meetings and discussions on the collaborative research.
  19. Nov. 18-20, 2007: Discussion on the SUSTWATER project.
  20. Feb-12-15, 2008: Discussion and planning meeting of collaborative projects under P2R.
  21. Sept. 24-Oct. 2,2008: Discussion on various collaborations, finalizing the draft of the 4th rider of the MoU between NGRI and BRGM and witness the signature at BRGM, HQ.
  22. August 16-24, 2009: Meeting with several collaborators and completion of model of Artificial Recharge to the groundwater at Sisyphe, UPMC, Paris.
 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  1. July 14-23, 1985: Participation to the NATO Advance Study Institute, "Fundamentals of Flow & Transport in Porous Media", University of Delware.
  2. July 9-19, 1989:  participated and presented papers to "28th International Geological Congress", Washington DC.
CANADA : August 9-22, 1987: Participation to and presentation of paper in "XIX I.U.G.G. General Assembly", Vancouver.
MALAYSIA
June 22-26, 1987: Participation to and presentation of paper in an International Conference on "Groundwater and Environment", Kualalumpur.
 
AUSTRALIA
  1. Nov. 21-25, 1994: Participated to and presented paper during " 25th  congress of International Association of Hydrogeologists", Adelaide.
  2. Jan. 15-31, 2008: Participation in the project work “Groundwater Governance in Asia” at the Centre for Comparative water policies and laws, Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide.
 
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
  1. Aug. 28 - Sep. 1, 1995: Participated and presented paper during a conference on "Water Resources Management" WRM-95, Isfahan Univ.  of Technology, Isfahan.
  2. Nov. 26 – Dec. 8, 2004: Participate in the UNESCO Regional workshop on “Water harvesting and Artificial Recharge” and also delivering a lecture series at the Ministry of Energy, Govt. of IR Iran and Iranian University of Science and technology.
  3. July 28 – August 3, 2006: Participated as a resource person to a workshop on “Application of models and new techniques in groundwater management in arid and semi-arid regions”
 
KUWAIT
March 22 – 28, 2002: Participated in an International Conference on Water Resources Management and presented a paper, Organized by the KISR, Kuwait.
 
EGYPT
December 16-22, 2002: Participated in an International conference on “Groundwater level control in the urbanized area” at Mansoura, Egypt and presented two keynote lectures and chaired a session.
 
PAKISTAN
April-May 2005: Participation as resource person in the UNESCO workshop on Managing Artificial Recharge and Water Harvesting, at Lahore.
 
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
June 9-18, 2007: Participation as Resource Person in the G-WADI meeting and workshop on Aquifer Modeling at Lanzhou.
 
MAROCCO : Nov. 20-25, 2007:  Various meetings interaction on the creation of a centre for Water Resources Management.
 
NEPAL
March 20-24, 2008: For the concluding workshop of the IWMI Project on Groundwater Governance in Asia: Theory and Practice.
 
KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
November 15 to 23, 2008: For participation to an International Seminar on “Water and Environment” at Riyadh and also visit to the Saudi Geological Survey at Jeddah.
 
SUDAN
September 26-30, 2009: Invited to deliver keynote lectures in an UNESCO workshop on Water Resources, at Khartoum, Sudan.
 
Other visits abroad: Singapore, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Thailand and UAE
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