Pawan K. Dhar

Biography

(a) Administrative 1. Chairman, Institutional Biosafety Committee, Shiv Nadar University: 1 year. 2. Academic Council member, Shiv Nadar University: 1.5 years. 3. Director, Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum : 5 years. 4. Head, RIKEN, Japan and Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad Project: 2 years. 5. Management Board, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore : 4 years. (b) Academic March 2015 onwards : Professor, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Oct 2013 – Feb 2015: Professor, Synthetic Biology, Dept. of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, U.P. July 2011 – Jan 2013: Professor and Head, Dept of Genetics and Molecular Biology School of Biomedical Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune. April 2010 – ongoing: Director, Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala. Jan 2006 – Sept 2009: Senior Scientist and Team Leader, Synthetic Biology, RIKEN Advanced Sciences Institute, Yokohama, Japan. Adjunct Faculty, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan. July 2002 – Dec 2005: Senior Scientist & Group Leader, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore. Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore. June 2001 – June 2002: Assistant Professor, Systems Biology, Institute of Advanced Biosciences Tsuruoka, Japan, Keio University, Japan. May 2000 – May 2001: Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Radiation Genetics, Kyoto University, Japan. Oct 1997 - April 2001: Associate Professor & Lab Head, Human Genetics Division, Manipal University, Karnataka. Mar 1997 – Sept 1997: Visiting Scientist, Institute for Medical Radiation Biology, University of Essen, Essen, Germany. Oct 1993 - Sept 1997: Assistant Professor & Lab Head, Human Genetics Division, Manipal University, Karnataka.

Research Interest

Pawan K. Dhar research interest include Synthetic Biology applications in health, energy and environment.