Dr Mousomi Bhakta, Assistant Professor in Mathematics at IISER Pune, has won the ‘Young Scientist Medal’ of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi.
The INSA, a body of Indian scientists created in 1935 for promotion of scientific knowledge in the country, awards the Young Scientist Medal each year. It is a prestigious and competitive award given to Indian scientists below the age of 35 years in recognition of promise, creativity and excellence in science and mathematics.
Dr Bhakta has been awarded the Medal for 2018. She is a mathematician working on elliptic PDE, nonlinear analysis and variational methods. Her award citation reads "Dr. Bhakta established results on Hardy equations with critical and super critical non-linearities, and obtained significant regularity results on bounded and unbounded domains." You can learn more about Dr. Bhakta's work here.
Many congratulations to Dr Mousomi Bhakta and best wishes for the future!
