Background
Gopal, Brij was born on March 7, 1944 in Muzaffarnagar, India. Son of Jagdish Pershad and Krishna Kanta (Agrawal) Mittal.
Gopal, Brij was born on March 7, 1944 in Muzaffarnagar, India. Son of Jagdish Pershad and Krishna Kanta (Agrawal) Mittal.
Bachelor of Science, Meerut College, India, 1961. Master of Science in Botany, Christ Church College, Kanpur, India, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 1968.
Postdoctoral fellow Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1969-1970. Lecturer in botany Agra College, 1970-1971. Assistant professor botany Rajasthan University, Jaipur, India, 1972-1985.
Associate professor Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1986-1998, professor, since 1998. Visiting professor Geobotany Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1984. Member steering committee National River Conservation Plan, India, since 2004.
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Fellow National Institute Ecology India (secretary general since 1978). Member International Association Limnology (chairman communications on limnology in developing countries since 1989, Naumann Thienemann medal 2004).
Married Madhu Garg (divorced). Children: Sudha, Anjali, Rajeev.