Rhizosphere Engineering

Dr. Ramesh Chandra Dubeyis a Professor, Dean- Research and Dean- Faculty of Medical Science and Health, and also has been the former Head of the Department of Botany and Microbiology at GurukulaKangriVishwavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the internationally renowned Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experienceson teaching and research in the field of Agricultural Microbiology. He has published over 190 research papers in national and international scientific journals. His Google Citation Index is above 5068 till date. He has authored 7 books and co-edited 10 books o nvaried aspects, such as soil and agriculture, microbiology, Industrial microbiology,and biotechnology. In 2022, Dr.Dubey published a unique book entitled as Vedic Microbiology with ‎Motilal Banarsidas International, New Delhi (India). Dr. Dubey is a Life Member and Fellow of the Indian Botanical Society, Indian Phytopathological Society and the International Society for Conservation of Natural Resources. He has also previously served as the Councilor of the Indian Botanical Society for 3 years (2011-2013) and Institutional Animal Ethical Committee (IAEC) for 6 years (2015-2021).

Dr. Pankaj Kumar completed his master’s and doctorate degrees at the Gurukula Kangri Vishawavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand (India). He has more than ten years of teaching and research experience. His research interest and expertise include the areas of rhizosphere microbiology, bacterial characterization and biofertilizers. He has published several research papers in national and international journals. He is also a co-editor of the book Rhizosphere Engineering (Elsever, 2022) with Prof. R. C. Dubey. He is also coauthor of An Objective Compendium on Food Science (Brillion publishing, 2022). He is life members of Association of Microbiology of India (AMI), New Delhi and Indian Science Congress, Kolkata, West Bengal and serving as reviewers and editorial board members of national and international journals. Currently, Dr. Pankaj is affiliated with the Department of Microbiology at the Dolphin (PG) Institute of Biomedical and Natural Science, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.