
August 13, 2024, 10:19 am Public Archive Indo-German WISER Award 2024 2024 New delhi Indo-German Science & Technology Centre
Ms. Sadaf Ansari, Senior Scientist at the Marine Instrumentation Division (MID), CSIR-NIO, Goa, has been awarded the prestigious Indo-German WISER Award 2024 by the Indo-German Science & Technology Centre - a joint collaboration between the Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany.
The award funds ten research projects each year, which are carefully evaluated by the Indian and German scientific committees. Ms. Ansari will undertake her project titled “AI-Driven Advanced Plankton Image Analysis for Ocean Monitoring” with Prof. Dr. Rainer Kiko, Heisenberg Professor and Group Leader of the Plankton Biogeochemistry and Dynamics Group at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany. Her project will span three years and include research stays at GEOMAR, Germany.
At GEOMAR, Ms. Ansari will contribute to ongoing German projects funded by the German Science Foundation (GSF) and the European Research Council (ERC) in the areas of AI/ML, where she will be collaborating with Prof. Dr. Rainer Kiko, Dr. Jan Taucher and Dr. Simon-Martin Schröder as a part of the project team.
Congratulations to Ms. Sadaf Ansari.