Ajeet Kumar Maurya received the 2019 Sunanda and Santimay Basu International Early Career Award in Sun–Earth Systems Science at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “work that shows promise of making outstanding contributions to research in Sun–Earth systems science and furthers the understanding of plasma physical processes and their applications for the benefit of society.”

Ajeet K. Maurya received his B.S. in physics and astronomy from the University of Lucknow in 2004 and an M.Sc. in physics from the University of Lucknow in 2006. In 2014, he received his Ph.D. in space physics under the supervision of Rajesh Singh from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai, India. He is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Doon University, Dehradun, India. His research interests include radio remote sensing of the ionosphere, space weather, and seismoelectromagnetic and atmospheric gravity waves.