Dr. Bikarma Singh is working as a Senior Scientist at the Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), J&K, which is one of India’s leading Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) institutes. He is also an Assistant Professor at AcSIR, Ghaziabad, and a Ph.D. Supervisor in the University of Jammu. He graduated and received a gold medal in Plant Sciences (Botany) from the North-Eastern Hill University Shillong in 2005, and completed his Doctorate Degree in Botany at Gauhati University (Assam) and the Botanical Survey of India (Shillong) Meghalaya in 2012. He began his career as a Scientist-Ecologist at WAPCOS Ltd, Gurgaon and joined IIIM’s Department of Plant Sciences in 2013. Dr. Singh has 15 year’s research experience in Plant Sciences, particularly in systematic and biotechnology, ethnobotany, value addition from essential oils, natural products, ecology, germplasm conservation and EIA. He is a reviewer for several national and international SCI and UGClisted journals, and has organized numerous seminars and workshops. He was named an ‘Outstanding Scientist in Botany in 2019’ by Venus International Foundation, Chennai and two of his Ph.D. students received best research paper awards in 2019. He has authored/co-authored 9 books and published 88 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. His notable publications include Plants for Human Survival and Medicine, Plants of Commercial Value, Plant-Human Relations & Future Drug Discovery. He holds 2 international patents, and has served as PI/Co-PI/team member for more than 40 research projects funded by government and private organizations. He is a member of several research committees, and has delivered invited talks as key-note speaker/lecturer at various conferences, seminars and workshops.
