Diwan Singh, PhD Senior Scientist Dept of Agril Meteorology CCS HAU Hisar -125 004 Haryana, India Phone # +91-1662-284335, 28-9208 (Work) Email: piaicrpam@hau.ernet.in

Academic Interests:

• Agronomy
• Agricultural Meteorology

Education:

• PhD, 1985, Agronomy, HAU Hisar
• MSc, 1979, Agronomy, HAU Hisar
• BSc (Hons), 1977, Agriculture, HAU Hisar

Professional Experience:

• Professor/Equiv, CCS HAU Hisar since 2004 till date
• Associate Professor/Equiv, CCS HAU Hisar since 1996-2004
• Assistant Professor/Equiv, CCS HAU Hisar since 1983-1996

Awards & Honors:

• Principal Investigator, AICRP on Agrometeorology, Hisar Unit. The unit has been declared Best in India for consecutive five years (2006-10) by CRIDA, ICAR for providing online weather based value added operational agrometeorological informations.

International Exposure:

· International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, July 14-17, 2003, Australia

· Post Doc Fellow, November 1, 2008 to 15 January, 2009, BOKU, Austria

Professional Affiliations:

• Indian Society of Agronomy (ISA)
• Indian Meteorological Society (IMS)
• Association of Agrometeorologists (AAM)

Professional/other responsibility held:

· Professor & Head (Aug, 2006 to Aug, 2010)

· President, AAM (HC)

· Vice President, AAM

· Convener: National Seminar on Agromet-2009