From roots to reach: Interaction with an Indian science communicator

Speaker: Prof. Felix Bast

Prof. Felix Bast (PhD, FLS) is an author, public educator and full Professor based at Central University of Punjab (Ministry of Education, Govt. of India), Bathinda, Punjab, India. A B.Sc. gold medalist, he was educated at the University of Madras Guindy campus and IIT Bombay. After earning PhD from MEXT, Japan as a Japanese government scholar, he has been serving the Government of India since 2010 when he took an appointment at the Central University of Punjab (Ministry of Education, Govt. of India). Dr. Felix Bast served as an invited in-residence intern with the President of India as an “Inspired teacher” for one week at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi in 2015. Amongst many discoveries that his team at CU Punjab has made (total 7 new species of plants) include a species of moss from Antarctica (featured in BBC News)- the first plant species discovery in 40…