Prof. Pawan Kumar Maurya is the Dean of the School of Lifelong Learning and Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the Central University of Haryana, India. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Allahabad (a Central University), India, and completed postdoctoral training at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil; Taipei Medical University (TMU); and National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan.
With over 14 years of teaching and research experience, Prof. Maurya specializes in biochemical diagnostics, nanomedicine, and clinical biochemistry. He has published more than 75 research articles in leading journals and has edited six books with Elsevier (USA) and Springer Nature (Singapore).
He is the recipient of prestigious fellowships, including Science Without Borders (Government of Brazil) and the National Science Council (Taiwan).Dr. Sanjay K. Singh, is presently working as In-charge and Senior Scientist, Biodiversity and Palaeobiology group (Fungi), MACS' Agharkar Research Institute, Pune (Autonomous Institute under DST, Govt. of India). He did his Ph.D. in Botany (Mycology) in1996 from Gorakhpur Univ. He is a fellow of Indian Phytopathological Society, and Society of Applied Biotechnology (SAB), India. He visited Montana State University, USA where he worked with renowned, Prof. Gary Strobel and received specialized training on biology of fungal endophytes and applications of their bioactive metabolites. With vast experience in the field of biodiversity, systematics, taxonomy, multigene sequencing and phylogeny, conservation and biotechnological applications of fungi, Dr. Singh has made note-worthy contributions. Published > 100 research and review articles in journals of repute and 14 book chapters. Besides he has been a reviewers and editorial board members of several prestigious journals.