Biography

Prof. Pratyoosh Shukla is presently working as Professor and Coordinator at the School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Prior to joining BHU he worked as Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India from the year 2011-2020. He was awarded with Indo-USA Research Professor at University of Cincinnati, USA. He has been recently appointed as Visiting Guest Professor in South China University of Technology, Guangzhou China. His research areas include enzyme technology and protein bioinformatics. He has 23 years research and 24 years of teaching experience in reputed universities of India and abroad. He has written more than 35 book chapters, published more than 230 peer reviewed publications in reputed SCI journals. He was recently also featured among a list of Indian Researchers who were Top 2% in 2019, 2020,2021,2022 –Stanford Study). He is Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS), Fellow of Academy of Microbiological Sciences (FAMSc), Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India (FBRS). He has received several awards, including Received ‘Prof. S.B. Saksena, Award, Top 10 Best Researcher of India, NRF-DUT Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award, Danisco India Award in Probiotics & Enzyme Technology, Selected as scientist in Southern Ocean Antarctica Expedition, AMI Platinum Jubilee Award, Alembic Award etc. He is also serving as Editor in Scientific Reports, Academic Editor (PLOS One), Editor (BMC Microbiology), Editor (Protein and Peptide Letters) and as Editorial Board Member & Reviewer in many journals. He also served as General Secretary of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), for two terms from 2014-2020.