Soumya GhoshDr. Soumya Ghosh is presently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, South Africa since September, 2019. Following his completion of his PhD from Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2011-2015) he purued his first postdoctoral studies at the Department of Biology, Thompson Rivers, University, BC, Canada (2016 -2017). After returning from Canada he joined as a visiting faculty of Microbiology at Kuchaman College, Rajasthan, India. Prior to his PhD, Dr Ghosh worked as Research Fellow position at the Department of Chronobiology, Biological Center, University of Gröningen, The Netherlands (2005). From 2005 to 2008, he worked as a Research Fellow at Department of Developmental Biology, Centre of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Tübingen University, Germany where he secured his Biologie-Diplomarbeit (2005-2006). Thereafter, he continued with same position at the Department of Systems Biology, Technical University Munich, Germany from 2008 to 2010. Dr Ghosh completed his Bachelor's degree in Microbiology from Garware College, Pune, India in 1999 and subsequently his Master's degree in Zoology at Pune University in 2001. Dr Ghosh is working on diverse fields ranging from plant biology to microbial diversity that will potentially lead to discovery of novel drug molecules. He has published 72 articles in peer reviewed journals such as Plant Cell, Biochemical Pharmacology, Diversity, Antibiotics, Microorganisms, Journal of Fungi, Current Microbiology, 3 Biotech, Frontiers in Microbiology, Scientific Reports, Applied Surface Science, Colloids and Surface A, Polyhedron, Journal of Molecular liquids, Reviews in Medical Virology, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 5 book chapters and currently editing and co-editing, books in Springer and Elsevier, respectively. Dr. Ghosh has secured currently an H-index and i10-index of 15 and 24, respectively with 1290 citations on google scholar. Read More Read Less