Kailash Chand Kumawat

Biography:

Dr. Kailash Chand Kumawat received his B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture from Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (India). He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, in 2014 and 2018 respectively. He joined as an Assistant Professor (Microbiology) in the Department of Industrial Microbiology, Jacob Institute of Bio-technology and Bioengineering (JIBB), Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, UP, India. He has been engaged in research on the plant-microbial interaction to mitigate abiotic and biotic stress under sustainable agriculture. A research field includes the plant microbial interaction, legume symbiosis, endophytic microbiome and their interaction with plant to mitigate abiotic and biotic stresses under sustainable agriculture. At present, he has published 26 research papers in peer reviewed international and national journals, 17 book chapters in Springer and Elsevier publishers, 3 full paper in the international and national conferences, 18 popular articles in reputed magazines and 12 abstract in National and International conferences related to field of agriculture microbiology, soil microbiology and environmental sciences, of which Papers are Published in Microbiological Research (Q1, IF = 5.415), World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (Q1, IF = 4.253), Pedosphere (Q1, IF = 5.514 ), Environment Science and Pollution Research (Q1, IF = 5.190) Frontiers in Microbiology (Q1, IF = 6.064), Frontiers in Plant Science (Q1, IF = 6.627 ) and Science of the Total Environment (Q1, IF = 10.753). Dr. Kumawat is an active reviewer for many reputed international journals in the field of applied microbiology, sustainable agriculture and environment management under changing climatic conditions. He is actively engaged in different professional societies like Life Member of the Association of Microbiologists of India, and Life Member of Asian PGPR Society of Sustainable Agriculture USA. He has over 1475 citations, h-index 18, I-10 24.