Ashutosh Kumar RaiDr. Rai has been working as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia since 2017. He is involved in teaching, research, laboratory, and administrative work.
Dr. Rai competed his Ph.D. (2012) in Applied Biochemistry from the School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University, India (specialization area: microbial biotechnology and molecular biology. He has a Master of Science degree in Applied Biochemistry from the Department of Biochemistry, VBS Purvanchal University, India.
During his Ph.D. he worked on cyanotoxins (microcystins) and plant growth-promoting bacteria. After completing his Ph.D., he worked on a project related to enhanced biofuel production in algae using genetic engineering techniques at ICGEB, New Delhi. Furthermore, he has worked on a metaproteomic-based project at NBAIM-ICAR. Dr Rai worked at the School of Biotechnology, JNU New Delhi as SERB-DST Young Scientist and Principal Investigator in a young scientist scheme project and worked on a host-pathogen interactions-based study. Altogether, Dr. Rai has 17 years of experience (teaching and/ or research) including 11 years after Ph.D. Dr. Rai is an expert in a wide range of laboratory/ research techniques and published numerous peer-reviewed articles (n >50) in leading journals/books.
His current Area of research interests are Microbial Biotechnology, Molecular Biology and Proteomics, Biomass and Biofuels, and Environmental Microbiology.
Additionally, Dr. Rai is actively involved in editorial roles and peer reviewer/ journal referee for several international journals. Read More Read Less