Prof. Mrinal K. Sen has been appointed as the new Director of the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), a part of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Before joining NGRI, Prof. Sen was a Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin.

He took over last week from Dr Y.J. Bhaskar Rao, who was the acting director, a release from the Institute said.

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