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Dr. Ramamoorthy Siva is currently working as a Professor and Head, at Department of Biotechnology, VIT University, India He has received his undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Plant Science from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. He has carried out his Ph.D. in “Plant Genetic diversity” from Bharathidasan University, India. He did his postdoctoral research at Ben Gurion University (Israel) and Gyeongsang National University (South Korea). His fields of interests are bioprospecting and biodiversity of natural dyes. More than 15 years, he has carried out extensive research on plant dyes and pigments. He is the recipient of prestigious MASHAV fellowship from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel at the Institute of Applied Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (2004). Dr. Siva is the recipient of ‘Young scientist’ project under Fast track scheme, supported by DST, India. He is involving popularising science in India by conducting lecture workshop on various biological aspects with the support of Science Academies, India since, 2009. Dr. Siva is successful to obtain various research grants in India. Dr. Siva is an IUCN species commission member for medicinal Plants. Dr. Siva nominated as Fellow of Linnean Society (FLS), London in 2013 and Elected as a Fellow of Royal Society of Biology (UK) in 2015. He has awarded a scientist by Tamilnadu Academy of Sciences, Chennai in 2017 and He was the international visiting fellow of University of Essex, UK (2017). He has published more than 100 manuscripts in a reputed peer reviewed journals with high impact factor journals. He is the Academic Editor of PLoS One , Peer J and Associate Editor of Journal of Natural Products and Bioprospecting (Springer). He has received various awards for his accomplishment.
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VIT University Professor and Head
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