K R Aneja

Dr. K.R. Aneja joined the teaching faculty in 1978 as lecture and later appointed Reader and Professor and also the Chairman of the Department of Microbiology from 1998 to 2007 at Kurukshetra, India. Dr. Aneja is a recipient of INSA, Royal Society Academic Exchange Fellowship. He has visited University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, IMI, IIBC, UK and several other institutions as a honorary guest and a distinguished scientist. He has successfully completed six major research projects financed by...See more

Dr. K.R. Aneja joined the teaching faculty in 1978 as lecture and later appointed Reader and Professor and also the Chairman of the Department of Microbiology from 1998 to 2007 at Kurukshetra, India. Dr. Aneja is a recipient of INSA, Royal Society Academic Exchange Fellowship. He has visited University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, IMI, IIBC, UK and several other institutions as a honorary guest and a distinguished scientist. He has successfully completed six major research projects financed by the DFID, UK UGC, New Delhi and Ministry of Environment and Forests. Dr. Aneja is a Fellow of the Indian Botanical Society, Fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society, and recently elected as Recorder, Plant Sciences, Section, Indian Science Congress Association, for the sessions 2008 and 2009 and member of the executives of Mycopathological Society and JIBS and a Life member of several national and international academic societies. He has published over 120 research papers and reviews in national and international journals/proceedings/books. Dr. Aneja's commitment to writing is long-standing. He is an author of experiments in Microbiology, Plant and Biotechnology, now in 4th edition, he is a co-author of An Introduction to Mycology and editor of "From Ethnomycology to Fungal Biotechnology" published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, USA and Glimpses in Plant Science. His research interests are in the area of pharmaceutical industrial and food microbiology, biotechnology and environmental microbiology with major emphasis on biopesticides. See less