K R Aneja

Biography:

Dr. Aneja got his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD degrees from Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra. He has a vast research and teaching experience of 38 years in  Botany, Microbiology and Biotechnology. He joined the teaching faculty in the same Institute and served as Professor & Chairman for 11years. He is the recipients of many Awards and Fellowships, the major one’s are INSA-Royal Society Academic Exchange Fellowship, Best Citizens of India, Rashtriya Gaurav and ISWA lecture awards. He is the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Awardee and past President of the Mycological Society of India; Recorder of ISCA; Shiksha Rattan Samman, and 2023 Unnat Bharat Shewa Shree Award. He has supervised 23 PhD scholars & over 35 M.Phil. students; published 180 research papers/reviews/chapters; over 50 abstracts, attended over 35 National and International Conferences, delivered lead lectures and chaired several sessions; authored/co-authored 15 books, edited 5 books, written 2 manuals, and Proceedings of an International Conference published by International Publishers (04) and National Publishers (19). He served as the Governor's/Chancellor's nominee for Teacher's selection at Punjabi university, Patiala. Currently, he is serving as an Honorary Professor & Research Advisor in Sardar Bhagwan Singh University, Dehradun (Uttarakhand), a Member of the Research Advisory Committee of ICAR Weed Research Centre, Jabalpur, M.P, India and an Expert Member of the ICFRE, Dehradun.