Pawan Kumar Singh

Biography

Pawan Kumar Singh received MSc and PhD degrees in Botany from Banaras Hindu University (BHU). After serving for a few years in the Department of Botany, BHU in the Algal Project under PL-480, he joined Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack as Algologist and served for about 21 years in various capacities including Principal Scientist, Head, National Fellow, Joint Director and Director (officiating). He was also briefly at the Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow as Head of the Department and thereafter joined Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi where he was Project Director, Joint Director (Research) and Director (officiating). He was also appointed as OSD by ICAR to start the National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, New Delhi. Thereafter, he served as Vice-Chancellor of CS Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur. After retiring from ICAR (2007), he joined BHU as INSA Senior Scientist and subsequently as CSIR Emeritus Scientist.

Research Interest

Plant Sciences, Microbiology, Algology, Sustainable Agriculture, Research Management