Experience
Professional with extensive experience of over 25 years in a R&D and over 16 years in PG teaching in the field of biotechnology, plant protection, natural products, analytical chemistry and agriculture policy.
Current Courses Taught
Horticulture By-Product Utilization
Research Interests
Metabolomics, Development of new analytical methods involving volumetric, spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques, Development of methods for monitoring environmental pollution and develop technologies for control of pollution, Isolation, characterization and bioactivity of plant extracts, Quality analysis for selection of low erucic and low glucosinolate mustard/rapeseed lines by GLC and HPLC. Half-seed analysis for the selection of zero erucic mustard, Bioprospecting of biodiversity for valuable phytochemicals, Agriculture-Food Security, Food Safety and Sustainable Agriculture, Development of Bio pesticides, Demonstration of biological control methods for control of pest and diseases for sustainable agriculture, Persistence and metabolism of pesticides on crops
Teaching Interests
Supervisor of 5 Ph.D Scholars as Guide at Amity University Uttar Pradesh
- Taught two Pre-Ph.D courses on Bioprospecting and GC and HPLC techniques. Took classes for M.Sc ‘Environmental Biotechnology and ‘Natural Resource Management’
Professional Affiliations
1. Editorial Board member of Elsevier Journal Heliyon
2. Guest editor of Springer Journal Phytochemistry Review: Special issue “New Processes and Applications for Plant and Microbial Products” 2012 and 2016
3. Member of Editorial Board ISRN Chromatography
4. Member of IUPAC Plant Protection Committee
5. Member of American Chemical Society
6. Member of Phytochemical Society of Europe
7. Member of Crop Science Society of America, USA
8. Member of American Society of Plant Biologists, USA
9. Member of International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences
10. Life Member of Society for Promotion and Innovation of Biopesticides
11. Life member of Society of Pesticide Science, India.
12. Life member of Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources
13. Life member IARI Alumni Association.
14. Offered membership of New York Academy of Sciences
15. Served as reviewer of many national and international journals
16. Member of Expert committee on development of Biopesticide
Strategy paper
17. Member of Entomologist Society of America
18. DAAD-Alumnus
19. MSU-Alumunus
20. Wageningen University-Alumnus
21. UC-Davis Alumuns
22. BIRAC Expert Group on agriculture
23. Task Force member of Biocare Program of DBT
24. Member of Expert Group on Eco-agriculture
Professional Activities
Director General, Food and Agriculture Foundation, Amity University
Organized several training programmes, seminar/symposium as Chairman, and Secretary/ Convener
Talks/Lead/Plenary Talks and Contributed papers on International / National Platforms
Other Achievements
1. BIRAC- Best Innovation in Agriculture 2016 Award
2. Awarded DBT CREST Fellowship in the year 2013
3. Bharat Jyoti Award and certificate of excellence from India International Friendship Society, India in 2012. Selected as DAAD Research Ambassador by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dienst in 2010
4. Awarded IARI Senior Fellowship.
5. Awarded ICAR NET Fellowship
6. Awarded NFP Fellowship of The Netherland Government in 2005
7. Awarded Cochran Fellowship of USDA in 2003.
8. Government of Korea Travel Award to deliver a lecture in 1st RDA/ ARNOA International Conference on Asia Organic Agriculture Suweon &Cheonan, Republic of Korea in 2002
9. UNESCO Travel Award for participation in IUPAC Conference on Biodiversity (ICOB-3), Turkey in 2001
10. INSA Young Scientist Travel Award for participation in XIVTH International Plant Protection Congress (IPPC) Plant Protection Towards the Third Millennium – Where Chemistry Meets Ecology, Isreal in 1999
11. Awarded Merit Scholarship
12. Notification of lowerucic rapeseed line by varietal release committee in August - 2001(as Co- Scientist)
13. Registration of seven quality lines by ICAR-NBPGR Germplasm Registration Committee (as Co-Scientist).
14. Best poster award for “Antiphytopathogencity of endophytic fungi isolated from Indian medicinal plants” presented at International Conference on Mycology & Plant Pathology: Biotechnological approaches (ICMPB-2012), February 27-29, 2012 at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
15. 2nd Prize for best poster award for the paper “Endophytic Fungi of Tylophora indica for management of wilt and root rot of chickpea” presented at 5th International Conference on Biopesticides: Stakeholders’ Perspectives, New Delhi, 26-30 April,2008 at IHC, India. pp.71-72
16. Best paper award for “Biological effects of Tylophora indica on growth and development of H. armigera” paper presented at National Symposium ‘Pesticide: Myths, Realities, and Remedies’, Dec 1-3, 2004, IARI, New Delhi.
1.ReValue: Innovative technologies for improving resource utilization in the Indo- European fish value chains, funded by DBT-EU , Rs. 97.6 Lakhs .
2. Building capacity to enhance farmer's capabilities to address the challenges of climate change using
Climate Smart Agriculture strategies , funded by APN , Rs. 43.8 Lakhs .
3. Leveraging genetic resources for accelerated genetic improvement of Linseed using comprehensive genomics and phenotyping approach, funded by DBT, Rs. 1.27 crores .
4. Omega Research Project , funded by Norwegian Research Council (RCN) , Rs. 32 Lakh .
5. Validation of Sal seed cake as organic manure and nitrification inhibitor , funded by TRIFED , Rs. 16.61 Lakh
Contact Information
Amity Food and Agriculture Foundation (AFAF)
AUUP Noida