User:Shivananda Murthy

Brief biography of Prof Shivananda Murthy H

Prof (Dr) H. Shivananda Murthy is a retired Dean (Fisheries), College of Fisheries, Mangalore. Earlier he served as Registrar at Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University(KVAFSU) Bidar, for 2 years. He also served as regular Director of Extension at KVAFSU for a full term of four years. Prof Shivananda Murthy also served as Professor and Professor & Head, Department of Aquaculture at College of Fisheries, Mangalore for more than 20 years. He did  BFSc., M.F.Sc., Ph.D., in Aquaculture from University of Agricultural Sciences(UASB), Bangalore and had advanced research assignments as Visiting Scientist at University of Stirling, UK; Texas A & M University, USA and University of Santiago, Spain. Has put in total service of 38 years in Education, Research & Development works in different capacities. Operated 17 major externally funded  research projects as Principal Investigator funded by IFS Sweden; DBT, DST, ICAR, Government of India, New Delhi and other organizations. He has guided 40  research scholars in Aquaculture and Biosciences as Research Guide in UASB, KVAFSU and Mangalore University. He has published over 281 publications including 151 research papers, books and other publications. Organized number of national and international conferences/symposia and training programmes. Prof Murthy has visited Spain, UK, USA, Denmark, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and other countries. He is the Recipient of several prestigious national/international awards for outstanding contributions in research and development in ‘Aquaculture & Fisheries’ including the ‘Jawaharlal Nehru Award’ of the Government of India, ‘Sir C V Raman Award’ of the Government of Karnataka and several other awards and recognitions. He served as Board Member of the Karnataka Biodiversity BOARD, Bangalore. Member of Planning Commission Technical Committee, New Delhi; Member/Advisor/Expert to ASRB, ICAR and several other Universities/organizations. He was a Keynote speaker, chaired technical sessions and presented in 55 international and national conferences. He was the recipient of British Government ODA Fellowship; Overseas Fellowship of IFS, Sweden and DBT, New Delhi.