Nagarjuna G. (Nagarjuna Gadiraju) works in the

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. The broad goals of the institute are to promote equity and excellence in science and mathematics educati ...

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the ...

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. His major research interests include Science Education, Cognitive Science, History and Philosophy of Science and Structure and Dynamics of Knowledge. As an activist he focuses on promoting free knowledge and free software and serves as the chairperson of Free Software Foundation of India.

Biography

Nagarjuna was born in 1960 at Nagarjuna Sagar, in

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

, India.

Education

Nagarjuna did M.Sc. in Biology and M.A. in Philosophy from Mumbai and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

Work

Some of his areas of interest are semantic web, knowledge organization, AI, philosophy of science, biological roots of knowledge and modelling complex systems with specific interest in cognitive development. He is the author of a specification and implementation of a distributed knowledge base called GNOWSYS. He is an architect of gnowledge.org, a community portal, which was launched on 2 February 2007. He contributed as a core developer and architect of SELF Platform. He is currently guiding four research scholars in the area of science education at HBCSE, TIFR. During the pandemic, Nagarjuna was part of th
Collaboratively Understanding Biology Education
program at the Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), which supported student learning at home throug
CUBE Home labs

Free Software Foundation

Nagarjuna is an active member of the

Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft (" ...

in India. He is one of the speakers for the FSF. He is a founding member, current chairperson and the member of the board of directors for the Free Software Foundation of India.

History and Philosophy of Science

Nagarjuna has interest in History and Philosophy of Science. He has created an illustrated exhibition on History of Science at

. He also teaches graduate courses in History and Philosophy of Science at Homi Bhabha Centre for science Education and Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences.

References

External links

Official Page:Gnowledge Portal:Personal Blog:
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