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Vivek Kumar

Swami Rama Himalayan University, Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs & Fish resources

ORCID iD 0000-0002-0274-5212
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Dr. Vivek Kumar is working as Professor, at Himalayan School of Biosciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun, India and is leading plant-microbe-interaction and microbial ecology research group. He obtained his master’s and a doctoral degree from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India.

He is serving as editor and reviewer of several reputed international journals. He has more than a 175 publications to his credit including research papers, book chapters, and review articles. He has also authored one practical manual book and edited several books with Springer Nature, Elsevier, and CRC Press. He is co-inventor of 03 granted Invention Patents of India, and 17 filed patents.

Dr. Kumar also served as Microbiologist for eight years in the Department of Soil and Water Research, Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs & Fish Resources, Kuwait. He has been credited with the first-time reporting and identification of the Pink Rot inflorescence disease of Date palm in Kuwait caused by Serratia marcescens. He has also organized a number of conferences/workshops as convener/ organizing secretary.

Dr. Kumar’s research areas are environmental microbiology, plant-microbe interactions, and bioremediation. He has been awarded the ‘Young Scientist Award’ for the year 2002 in ‘Agricultural Microbiology’ by the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI). He is also recipient the 'Teacher Award' of the SRH University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand State, India, 2024, and 'Uttarakhand Innovative Ward' 2024.

Employment

  • Swami Rama Himalayan University Professor
    2017 - Present
  • Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs & Fish resources Microbiologist
    2003 - 2011

Education

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