Kn Saxena

Biography

Kailash Narain Saxena earned his MSc (Agricultural Zoology) (1947) and DPhil (Zoology: Entomology) in 1951 from Allahabad University. He was Lecturer (1952), Reader (1958), Professor (1968) and Head (1976-79), Department of Zoology, all at University of Delhi. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, USA (1956) and Department of Entomology, University of Illinois (1957). He also held Visiting appointments for 3-12 months in institutions such as CSIRO, Australia (1963); University of Manitoba, Canada (1967-68), State Agricultural University, Netherlands (1964, 1969, 1976), California Institute of Technology, USA (1970), University of Wuerzburg, Germany (1979), and Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany (1982-83). He then joined the International Center of Insect Physiology & Ecology (ICIPE) in 1983 as Programme Leader of Crop Pests Research, where he later held the positions of Deputy Director/Deputy Director General (1992-95) when he retired and moved to the USA. In USA (1997-2003), he served as Senior Editor/Editor-in-Chief of the publication Arthropod Management Tests (Entomological Society of America).

Research Interest

Entomology : Insect Behaviour and Management