Niharika Sharma

Biography:

Dr Niharika Sharma is a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at NSW DPIRD with a research focus on leveraging omics data to steer crop breeding approaches/outcomes. She has obtained her PhD degree in 2014 at the University of Melbourne, Australia and since then, she has worked exclusively in the Agricultural research sector with past positions at the University of Adelaide (Australia) and the University of Delhi (India). She has >15 years of experience in the field, applying high-throughput omics approaches for crop breeding using novel algorithms and advanced statistical approaches. She has published more than 25 research articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals.