PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
· Completed ATEX Awareness training course (REF-22896) Certificate Number: CMSE-84012 on 26 January 2021
· Completed Training Workshop on Radiological Protection(as per RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION ACT 1991 (IONISING RADIATION) REGULATIONS 2019) on 19th & 20th Jan 2021, TCD.
· Completed IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) Managing Safely V5 Training ISO14001, ISO45001, ISO9001 on 8-10 Sept ’20 via CMSE, Certificate Number: 66323646-01-T2PE Issued Date: 03 December 2020.
· Completed Radiological Protection Training Course provided by Radiation Safety Ireland (https://radiationsafety.ie/), 09th Oct 2020 to comply with Regulation 35 of the Radiological Protection Act, 1991 (Ionising Radiation) Regulations, 2019.
· Completed iProtectU training, Health and Safety Management, ISO 45001, ISO9001 Regulatory Compliance
· Completed training on Safe Use of Cryogenics, TCD ON 17TH Nov 2020.
· Completed BOC Gas Safety Awareness Course.
· Completed Laser Safety Course, Standard I.S. EN 60825-1:2014, Standard EN207 and EN208.
· Completed CAPSL (capsl.cc) Virtual Clinic - Adapting our Teaching for Learning Online on 15th Sep 2020
· Completed modules - Adapting our Teaching for Learning Online and Module: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - as part of the Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice
· Chair of TCD CL3 Biosafety Compliance committee.
· Member of TCD UBSC (university Biological safety committee).
· Member of TCD Health & Safety Committee.
· Member of TTMI & TBSI CL3 User group
· Member of Royal Society of Biology (RSB), London, UK.
· Member of International Phytotechnologies Society (IPS)
· Member of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC)
· Member of European Fusarium Society (EFS)
· Member of International Association of Plant Biotechnology (IAPB)
· Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS), 1200 New York Ave, Washington,DC20005
· Member of American Phytopathological Society (APS).
· Life member of Society of Biological Chemists of India (SBC) & Indian Society of Agricultural Biochemists of India (ISAB)
· Academic editor of ECOBIOS (A Peer Reviewed Journal for Biology, Ecology and Allied Sciences)
· Reviewer of Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology and Sustainable, In-Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant (IVCDB-Plant), Biological Trace Element Research and Journal of Hazardous Materials.
· Instructor of the module HS1001-A-Y-202021 (HEALTH AND SAFETY) in TCD.
· Provided CL3 training (Principles & practices of CL3 labs) & assessed researchers prior to CL3 work in TCD.
· Occasional lecturer for module GENE30010- Genetics and Tutor for module BIOL20030 -Systems at UCD, Dublin and Modern Biology and Plant Functional Genomics at IIT Guwahati, India.
· Awarded University Grade I Merit Scholarship during the entire B.Sc & M.Sc course
· Awarded DBT Scholarship during the Masters programme in Agricultural Biotechnology.
· Awarded International DBT and DST Travel Grant to attend 9th International Phytotechnology Conference (IPS) at Hasselt University, Belgium, 2012.
· Fetched 500K RANDS UKZN-PDF fellowship, 2013.
· Fetched 0.5 M RANDS Claude Leone PDF fellowship, University of Pretoria, RSA, 2014
· Published 20+ scientific work in peer reviewed high impact journals.
· Supervised research projects of PhDs, Masters and Undergrads students
· Patent: International Patent publication number: WO2018/162750 A1, 13th Sep 2018. International application no.: PCT/EP2018/055978, International Filing date: 9th Mar 2018, FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT DISEASE RESISTANCE. https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2021/0054400.html
· Completed Nature Masterclasses online course on Scientific Writing and Publishing encompassing
· Part 1: Writing a research paper, Completed, Finished on: 21-10-2019
· Part 2: Publishing a research paper, Completed, Finished on: 21-10-2019
· Part 3: Writing and publishing a review paper, Completed, Finished on: 14-11-2019
· Completed Nature Masterclasses online course on Focus on Peer Review, Completed, Finished on 13-11-2019, Scientific Writing and Publishing Sample Module, Completed, Finished on 14-11-2019 and Effective Collaboration in Research Sample Module, Completed, Finished on 14-11-2019