20 Facts About Talat Ahmad

Talat Ahmad was born on 23 December 1955 and is an Indian Earth Scientist, former Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Delhi and served as Indian National Science Academy Senior Scientist.

Talat Ahmad served as Chairman of Governing body which oversees Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun from 1 December 2021 onwards and served the office till 30 November 2024 and thereafter as a member of Governing body from 1 December 2024 till 30 November 2027.

Talat Ahmad was shortlisted by a committee constituted by the governor to shortlist a panel for the post.

Talat Ahmad had earlier taken over as Vice-Chancellor of University of Kashmir from Professor Riyaz Punjabi on 1 June 2011 and served there until the year 2014.

Talat Ahmad was handed over charge by Professor Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi who had been serving as officiating Vice-Chancellor since October 2017 after his tenure was over.

Talat Ahmad is the first vice chancellor to serve a second term and the second vice chancellor to be appointed from outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the past two decades.

Talat Ahmad was born and brought up in a small town of Giridih, Jharkhand.

In 1979, Talat Ahmad got selected in the UPSC and started working as a junior geologist with the Geological Survey of India and formally joined GSI in February 1980.

Talat Ahmad worked there for a year, but left it soon after as for him, it was more of a survey and less of research.

Talat Ahmad worked at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun, as a scientist under DST for nineteen years.

Talat Ahmad joined the Department of Geology, University of Delhi as a professor on 31 October 2003.

Talat Ahmad got another project, Russian Foundation for Basic Research after coming to the valley of Kashmir.

Talat Ahmad took over as vice-chancellor of University of Kashmir on 1 June 2011.

On 29 April 2014, Talat Ahmad was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Pursuant to the permission of the chancellor of the university, Talat Ahmad was relieved from the post by A M Shah, dean of academic affairs of the university.

Talat Ahmad joined Jamia Millia Islamia on 15 May 2014, taking over from officiating Vice-Chancellor Prof S M Sajid and thus succeeded Najeeb Jung after he was sworn in as the 20th lieutenant governor of Delhi in April 2013.

In 2018, Talat Ahmad was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Kashmir University for the second time and served the office till 20 May 2022.

Talat Ahmad has been working on various sponsored projects, including Geochemical, Isotopic and Geochronological characterisation of Granotoids from the Central Indian Tectonic Zones and Central Indian Shear Zones -Constraints on Pre-cambrian Crystal Evolution, funded by Indo-Russian, ILTP Project, and Proterozoic mafic magmatism in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone : elemental and isotopic constraints on crystal evolution and geodynamics.

Talat Ahmad had the memberships of many was a recipient of the following fellowships and awards:.

Talat Ahmad bore memberships of prestigious societies and was a recipient of many prestigious honours.