Ashwani Kumar
Title: Global warming and climate change: Role of Biofuels and Biomass in greenhouse gas mitigation
Biography
Professor
Ashwani Kumar MSc (Botany) Gold Medal, Ph.D. (1971) University of Rajasthan.
Awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Germany, Visiting Professorship JSPS
Japan, U.K. INSA-DFG Germany. Worked in areas of plant pathology, physiology,
renewable sources of energy, biofuel biotechnology, photosynthetic carbon
fixation in C3 and C4 plants with support of projects granted by UGC., USDA-ICAR.,
MNES, CSIR, DST and DBT and FACT. Visited USA, Canada, Denmark, Italy,
Netherlands, UK , Japan, France, Sweden, Spain and Portugal for research.
Published around 180 papers in National and International journals. Fellow of
various societies FBS, FPSI, FISMPP and FMA. Guided research to 39 students to
Ph.D. Consultant of World Bank Project sanctioned to SPRI-HPPI and Biodis
Spain. Published 16 books including Plant Tissue Culture A tool in
Biotechnology Basics and application and edited book on Fern Biotechnology both
by Springer. He also has another 14 books mainly in the field of Biotechnology
to his credit. He was awarded V Puri Medal 2008 for Botany and CEE award for
excellence in teaching and research 2015.
Research Interest
Renewable Sources of energy, Biofuels
