Awards

Elected Fellow
Royal Society (United Kingdom, London), 2023
Elected Fellow
African Academy of Sciences (Kenya, Nairobi) - AAS, 2022
Elected Fellow
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany, Halle), 2016
Elected Fellow
The World Academy of Sciences (Italy, Trieste) - TWAS, 2016
Elected Fellow
Crop Science Society of America (United States, Madison) - CSSA, 2015
Elected Fellow
American Society of Agronomy (United States, Madison) - ASA, 2018
Elected Fellow
Indian National Science Academy (India, New Delhi) - INSA, 2013
Elected Fellow
Indian Academy of Sciences (India, Bengaluru) - IASc, 2019
Elected Fellow
National Academy of Sciences India (India, Allahabad) - NAAS, 2010
Honorary Fellow
Central Arid Zone Research Institute (India, Jodhpur) - CAZRI, 2019
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Government of India (India, New Delhi) - GOI, 2015
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award,
Government of India (India, New Delhi) - GOI, 2020
Prof Jayashankar Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (India, Hyderabad) - PJTSAU, 2019
Certificate and Honor for Outstanding Science Contribution
Government of Uttar Pradesh (India, Lucknow), 2018
Doreen Margaret Mashler Award
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 2016
Young Crop Scientist Award
Crop Science Society of America (United States, Madison) - CSSA, 2013
NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award
National Academy of Sciences India (India, Allahabad) - NASI, 2007

Organisational Affiliations

Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University

Past Affiliations

Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University

Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland

Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia

Professor, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Adjunct Professor, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, University of Ghana

Honorary/Emeritus, BGI Hongkong Institute

Adjunct Professor, University of Hyderabad (India, Hyderabad) - UoH

Adjunct Professor, Prof Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural Uni

Honorary/Emeritus, Ch Charan Singh University

Education

Botany
1993, Bachelor of Science (BS), AMU, Aligarh, India
Botany (Genetics, Plant Breeding & Molecular Biology)
1995, Master of Science in Botany, AMU, Aligarh, India
Agricultural Botany (Molecular Biology)
2001, Doctor of Agricultural Botany, CCS University, Meerut, India

Thesis entitled “A Study of Microsatellites in Hexaploid Wheats”