Ashwani Kumar
Summary
Present focus of Ashwani Kumar, Metagenomics and Secretomics lab is on plant-microbe interaction, abiotic stress tolerance, lignocellulosic biofuels, Bioremediation, and metagenomics. Recently, he has been featured on top 2 % of World Scientists, and ranked 750 in Plant Biology, and Botany, which is published by PLos Biology. He has published 56 good Impact articles in International journals with cumulative IF of over 200, his Google scholar citations is 3600; i10 index 44; h index 23. He also published 20 book chapters and gave over 25 talks in International Conferences. He received several National and International Awards such as Commonwealth Fellowship in University of Saskatchewan, Claude Leon and National Research Foundation Fellowship in South Africa. He has received GIAN Program, MHRD, Govt of India, Shastri Indo-Canada Mobility Program Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in 2019. He is life member of BRSI, NIE, and ISEB, India and recently elected as Fellow of International Society of Environmental Botanist. He is serving as an editorial board member of Plos One, Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Agronomy, MDPI- Plants, and MDPI-Sustainability.