Awards/Honors/Distinctions/Peer Recognition: 34

1.     1st Rank in India – Agriculture (Agriculture & Forestry)- AD Scientific Index 2024

2.     1st Rank in India – Microbiology (Among private Universities)- World’s Top 2% Scientists-2024

3.     University Best Researcher Award – 2023, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh during the 11th Annual Convocation on May 18, 2024.

4.     Outstanding Associate Editor Award – Frontiers in Microbiology- 2023

5.     University Best Researcher Award – 2022, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh during the 10th Annual Convocation on May 06, 2023.

6.     University Best Teacher Award – 2018, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh during the 6th Annual Convocation on November 24, 2018.

7.     World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University, California, USA)-2024

8.     World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University, California, USA)-2023

9.     World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University, California, USA)-2022

10.  World’s Top 2% Most Influential Scientists (Single Year) in 2022 Stanford University

11.  Outstanding Associate Editor Award – Frontiers in Microbiology- 2022

12.  Young Scientist Award: NASI Swarna Jayanti Puraskar, In: 83rd Annual Session of National Academy of Sciences, India and Symposium on “Space for human welfare” for paper entitled “Genetic diversity of cultivable plant growth promoting wheat associated psychrotolerant bacteria from northern hills zone of India author by Verma P, Yadav AN, Kazy SK, Saxena AK, Suman A, held at Goa University, Dec 5-7, 2013.

13.  Excellent Reviewer- By journal editors. Details on publons. https://publons.com/researcher/1181960/dr-ajar-nath-yadav/

14.  Resource Person: For Scientific Project Report Competition during 28th Himachal Pradesh Children Science Congress organized by HIMCOSTE, Shimla 28/01/2021 to 30/01/2021. 

15.  Best papers presentation award,   In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, for paper Kaur T, Devi R, Negi R, Kour D, Kumar S, Yadav AN (2022) Plant Growth Promotion of Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica L.) by Novel and Potential Microbial Consortium with Multifunctional Attributes. pp- 52

16.  Best papers presentation award,   In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, for paper Gabba D, Kour D, Yadav AN, Suyal DC, Singh N (2022) Psychrotrophic Phosphorus Solubilizing Bacteria of Himalayan Regions: Biodiversity and Role in Plant Growth Promotion of Cereal Crops. In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, pp- 51

17.  Best papers presentation award,   In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, for paper Negi R, Kaur T, Devi R, Kour D, Sheikh I, Tyagi V, Yadav AN (2022) First Report on Nitrogen-Fixing Endophytic Bacteria from Wild Wheat Relative Aegilops kotschyi and their Role in Plant Growth Promotion.  In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, pp- 57

18.  Best papers presentation award,   In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, for paper Devi R, Kaur T, Negi R, Kour D, Yadav AN (2022) Synergistic Effect of Microbial Consortium of Mineral Solubilizing Microbes on Plant Growth of Oats (Avena sativa) Growing in Hilly Region of Himachal Pradesh. In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, pp- 46

19.  Best papers presentation award,   In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, for paper Thankappan S, Binodh AK,  Ramasamy NK, Kumar PR, Yadav AN (2022) Defense Priming by Plant Activating Proteins flg22 towards Sustained Plant Immunity. In: International Conference on “Water, Agriculture, Dairy and Food Processing for Sustainable Economy, pp- 97

20.  Best papers presentation award, In: National Conference on Sustainability: Methods, Practices & Adaptation-Indian Perspective, for paper “Kaur T, Devi R, Kour D, Kumar S, Yadav AN (2021) Plant growth promotion of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by novel and potential microbial consortium with multifunctional attributes”  September 4-5, pp 40

21.  Best papers presentation award, In: National Conference on Sustainability: Methods, Practices & Adaptation-Indian Perspective, Negi R, Kaur T, Devi R, Kour D, Yadav AN (2021) Plant growth promotion and acquisition of nitrogen in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) by nitrogen fixing endophytic bacteria Erwinia persicina EU-B1RT.R4. September 4-5, pp 42

22.  Best papers presentation award, In: 2nd International Conference on “Recent Advances in Agriculture, Environmental & Applied Sciences for Global Development (RAAEASGD-2019),  for paper entitled “Alleviation of drought stress in Sorghum bicolor with drought-adaptive and P-solubilizing plant growth promoting microbes” authors by Kour D, Rana KL, Kaur T, Devi R, Negi C, Sheikh I, Yadav AN, at at Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India from 27/09/2019 to 29/09/2019

23.  Best papers presentation award, In: 2nd International Conference on “Recent Advances in Agriculture, Environmental & Applied Sciences for Global Development (RAAEASGD-2019),  for paper entitled “Rhizospheric and endophytic microbes with multifarious plant growth promoting attributes for agricultural sustainability” authors by Kaur T, Devi R, Negi C, Rana KL, Kour D, Yadav AN, at at Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India from 27/09/2019 to 29/09/2019

24.  Best papers presentation award, In: National Conferences on “New Insights in Biological & Environmental Sciences (NIBES)” for paper entitled “Alleviating of Drought Stress in Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica) Using the Drought-Tolerant Rhizobacteria with Multifarious Plant Growth Promoting Attributes” authors by Kour D, Rana KL, Yadav AN, Dhaliwal HS at Eternal University, Baru Sahib, May 24-25, pp-41

25.  Best papers presentation award, In: National Conferences on “New Insights in Biological & Environmental Sciences (NIBES)” for paper entitled “Evaluating the Potential of Plant Growth Promoting Endophytic Bacteria as Bio-Inoculants for Wheat (Triticum aestivum)” authors by Rana KL, Kour D, Yadav AN, Dhaliwal HS at Eternal University, Baru Sahib, May 24-25, pp-74

26.  Best papers presentation award, In: 3rd Himachal Pradesh Science Congress, for paper entitled “Endophytic Microbes from Cereal Crops and Their Potential Applications for Plant Growth Promotion” authors by Rana KL, Kour D, Yadav AN, Dhaliwal HS, IIT Mandi. October 22-23, 2018

27.  Best papers presentation award,  In: International conferences on Advances in Science and Technology, for paper entitled “Role of stress tolerant phosphorus solubilizing microbes associated with cereals and pseudo cereals in extenuating drought stress” authors by Kour D, Rana KL, Yadav AN, Kumar V, Dhaliwal HS, held Chandigarh. 16-18 March, 2018

28.  Best papers presentation award,  In: 2nd Himachal Pradesh Science Congress, for paper entitled “Molecular diversity and functional attributes of phosphorus solubilizing microbes isolated from rhizosphere of different cereal crops growing in the Divine valley of Baru Sahib” authors by Kour D, Rana KL, Yadav AN, Kumar V, Dhaliwal HS, held Shimla. 2017

29.  Best papers presentation award,  In: National Conference on Advances in Food Science and Technology, for paper entitled “Drought tolerant phosphorus solubilizing microbes: Diversity and biotechnological applications for crops growing under rainfed conditions” authors by Kour D, Rana KL, Verma P, Yadav AN, Kumar V, Dhaliwal HS, held at Eternal University, Baru Sahib, HP. March 24-25, 2017

30.  Best papers presentation award, In: 2nd International Conferences of “Innovative Research in Engineering, Science and Technology” for paper entitled “Engineering Phytases: Optimizing Efficiency, Activity, Stability and Applications of an Extremely Useful Enzyme” authors by Kumar V, Sangwan P, Yadav AN, Vyas P, Kumar R, Dhaliwal HS, held at Eternal University, Baru Sahib, HP,  IREST/OP/075 April 7-8, 2017

31.  Best papers presentation award, In: 2nd National conference on “New Horizons in Human Health and Nutrition” for paper entitled “Increasing micronutrient bioavailability in foods by phytase applications” author by Kumar V, Yadav AN, Dhaliwal HS,  held at Shoolini University, Solan, HP, March 2-3, 2017

32.  Best papers presentation award, In: International Seminar on “Indigenous Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Better Tomorrow” for paper entitled “Potassium solubilizing bacteria associated with wheat from six agro-ecological zones of India and their role in sustainable agriculture” author by Verma P, Yadav AN, Kazy SK, Kumar S, Saxena AK, Suman A,  held at CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, January 9-10, 2016

33.  Best papers presentation award, In: International Conference on “Low Temperature Science and Biotechnological Advances” for paper entitled “Microbes mediated alleviation of cold stress for growth and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)” authored by Yadav AN, Singh RN, Sachan SG, Kaushik R, Saxena AK, held at NASC Complex, New Delhi-110012, India, April 27-30, 2015,

34.  Best paper presentation award, In: National symposium on “Microbes in Health and Agriculture” for paper entitled Diversity Analysis and Plant Growth Promoting Attributes of Culturable Psychrotolerant Bacteria from Leh Ladakh and Rohtang Pass, author by Yadav AN, Sachan SG, Verma P, Suman A, Saxena AK, held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 12-13, 2012.