Pratyoosh Shukla Editor & Author

Prof. Pratyoosh Shukla is working as Head, Department of Microbiology at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India.  Prof. Shukla is also working as General Secretary of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), a 75 year-old, one of the reputed scientific organizations in world.

He has more than 14 years of research and teaching experience in reputed universities of India and post doctoral experience at Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa and worked as Research Professor at University of Cincinnati under Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and American Society of Microbiology (ASM) program. He has written 4 Books, 15 book chapters, one patent, Edited 3Biotech journal (Springer), published more than 65 peer reviewed papers in reputed national and international journals. He has received several awards, including ‘Prof. S.B. Saksena, F.N.A., Award’ in Life sciences (1999), Best presentation Award (Senior Category-2006) by NCSTC, India, NRF-DUT PDF Award in Enzyme Biotechnology (2008), Danisco India Award in Probiotics & Enzyme Technology (2010), Selected as Scientist in Southern Ocean Expedition (2011), Indo-US Professorship Award (2014) by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and American Society of Microbiology(ASM).

He is serving as Editor of Indian Journal of Microbiology (Springer) and as editorial board member and reviewer in many peer reviewed SCI journals. He also served as Editor in Chief of Internet Journal of Microbiology, Internet Scientific Publishers, USA during 2008-2009. His current research interests are in the areas of Enzyme technology, Protein bioinformatics and Systems biology.