Prof. Vinay Sharma is Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology and Chair, Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology at Banasthali Vidyapith, India. He is also Coordinator, DBT M.Sc. Programme in Biotechnology and, DBT Centre for Bioinformatics, Banasthali University. Earlier he served as Lecturer and then Reader during Feb 1986 to April 96 at IIT Roorkee, India. He has over 30 years of teaching and research experience and has published over 250 research papers (including 31 as conference proceedings/ book chapters). Besides he has written 3 Text Books, 3 Edited Books and edited one thematic issue of "Current Biochemical Engineering". His major areas of research interests are Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.