Pradeep Kumar

Dr. Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India. Before this, he served as an Assistant Professor at NERIST, India, and as an Assistant Professor in th Department of Biotechnology at Yeungnam University, South Korea. He was awarded the prestigious PBC Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked for over three years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biotechnology Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Dr. Kumar’s research interests include applied microbiology, biocontrol, nanotechnology, phytochemistry, and food sciences. He has published more than 110 peer-reviewed research and review articles, 35 international book chapters, and nine edited books, with over 11,700 citations. He received the Early Career Research Award (2017) from SERB, Government of India, and has served as principal or co-principal investigator for 10 government-funded research projects.