Sudesh KumarDr Sudesh Kumar obtained his PhD in 2002 from the Department of Biochemistry, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. Subsequently, he worked as post-doctoral fellow at ICGEB, New Delhi (2002-2004). He joined CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresoure Technology, Palampur in 2004 as Scientist. In April, 2016, he joined as Scientist-F at Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB). He has been working in the area of plant metabolic engineering and nanobiology and current research focus is towards improving the efficacy of hydrolytic enzymes through synthetic biology and nanobiology approaches for developing the efficient transformation process for biomass into value added products.
Dr Kumar has published 110 research articles in peer reviewed journals, one book and 12 book chapters. His work has been cited 5000 times and has an h-index of 35. For his outstanding research contributions in the area of plant sciences, he has been honoured with many prestigious awards such as Indian National Science Academy (INSA)-Young Scientist Award- 2008, The National Academy of Science, India (NASI)-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award-2009, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Young Scientist Award-2010. He has been awarded BOYSCAST Fellowship during 2008 by DST, GOI for conducting advanced research at UCR, Riverside, USA for one year. He has been also selected "NAAS-Associate" by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences from 2013 and conferred "Prof. Hira Lal Chakravarty Memorial Award" of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) for the year 2012-2013. He has been honoured with "Haryana Yuva Vigyan Ratna Award" 2011-12 for his excellent research contributions. Read More Read Less