Centre of Excellence for Disaster Risk Reduction

Date: 21.08.2019
CIRCULAR – Expert Lecture

Sl. No. Title of Lecture Expert Date and Time Venue

Chemical Mr. Vinod
Warfare Kaushik
1. Scientist – E, 26.08.2019, Monday
Emergency
Dy. Director 3 : 00 pm – 4: 00 pm
Management in
INMAS - DRDO, Lecture
Sea Ports Delhi Hall
Chemical Dr. Himanshu Complex-C
Warfare Ojha
2 26.08.2019, Monday
Emergency Scientist – E,
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Management in INMAS - DRDO,
Airports Delhi

All interested UG, PG, Ph.D students and faculty are invited to attend the lecture.

Sd/-
Dr. Raj Mohan B
Coordinator, CoE DRR
Copy to: Notice Board, All HoD/HoS are request to circulate in the departments.
 Resource Persons
Mr. Vinod Kaushik is the Scientific Officer and Deputy Director at
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Defence
Research & Development Organization, Delhi. His area of specialization
is of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear decontamination and
Emergency Management. He has played a lead role in establishing CBRN
training systems at INMAS- DRDO and contributed in the development
of a self-usable decontamination formulation referred as “REMOCON”. More than 7000
responders have been trained / sensitized in 59 training courses and 14 workshops in the institute
till date. He has also developed a radio-communication system for first responders to work in
contaminated environment while using CBRN face masks. A field compatible CBRN agents
protected mobile whole body counter was developed by him. A high through put Radiochemical
Analytical Facility based on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry has also been setup
at INMAS under his purview. He instrumental for generation of many field manuals, glossary,
brochure, CBRN awareness manual in INMAS DRDO. To his credentials he has published 16
research articles in national and international journals, 15 concepts, 05 methodologies and 05
products.
Dr. Himanshu Ojha is currently holding position of Scientist E at Institute of
Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Defence Research &
Development Organization, Delhi. He is working in the area of CBRN
defence for design and development of chemical and radiological agents’
detection and decontamination development. Developed a wet
decontamination nanoemulsion for radiological agents and Dry
decontamination wipe for chemical and biological agents’ contamination.
He has contributed for the development of an effective hydrogel based on silver nanoparticles
has developed for pre-hospital care. He had identified lead compounds for reactivation of
acetylcholine esterase affected by nerve agents. He is also an active member in Quality,
Reliability and Safety cell of INMAS. He is an expert in fluorescence, Circular dichroism,
Isothermal titration calorimetry, HPLC and in-silico studies. He has been contributing as OiC of
annual CBRN trainings and nodal officer for Airport CBRN trainings, trained 722 non-health
responders and 218 medical doctors and 300 airport emergency handlers and prepared 12
airports and 04 seaports CBRN compliant. He has filed three patents, 30 research publications
in international journals, edited one reference book for CBRN courses and One book chapter for
book of Elsevier publishers.