Place & Date of birth Kanpur (India), January 01, 1956
Position
Deputy Director
Head, Centre for Biofuels
Head, Biotechnology Division
Academic Qualification
B. Sc 1974 Biology, Chemistry Kanpur University
M. Sc 1976 Chemistry Kanpur University
Ph. D 1979 Microbiology Allahabad University
Professional Experience
1979-82 Post-doctoral Fellow, Allahabad University, Allahabad
1982-85 Scientist, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur
1985-86 Scientist, Biotechnology, Zentral Labotorium, Sudzucker, Germany
1987-till-date* Scientist, National Institute for Interdisciplinary S&T, CSIR, Trivandrum
1992* Visiting Scientist, GBF, Germany [Sept-Oct]
1992-1993* Visiting Scientist, University of Louis Pasteur, France [Dec-Jan]
1995** Visiting Scientist, University of Louis Pasteur, France [July-Dec]
1997** Visiting Scientist, University of Sunderland, UK [May]
1998-2000* Professor Titular, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
2000* UNESCO Professor, Malaysia, Thailand [Dec]
2003-2008* Visiting Professor, University of Blaise Pascal, France [June-July each year]
2008* Visiting Professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland [December 2008]
*Including visits to Germany (1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2003), Italy (1988), France (1992-93, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2003-2008), Greece (1995, 2003), UK (1997, 2000, 2001, 2007), Argentina (1999), Brazil (1998-2000, 2006, 2007), Malaysia (2000, 2003), Thailand (2000, 2002), Ireland (2001), Hungary (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), Australia (2003, 2008), USA (2004) Mexico (2004), Korea (2007, 2008, 2009), Japan (2007), Switzerland (2007, 2008) and Singapore (2008)
Research Experience: 31 years
Area of Interest: Industrial Biotechnology
Nature of Work: R & D, Teaching, Consultancy, Administrative & Technical and Human Resource Development
Publications: 712
Patents – 9
Popular Science Book – 2
Encyclopaedia- 1Books- 20
Journals as special issue editor – 14
Reports – 20
Chapters in the Books/Proceedings – 72
Original and Review Papers – 280
Research Communications (in International conf/symposia) – 214
Research Communications (in National conf/symposia) – 81