Lecturer at Karnatak University, Dharwad, India. He obtained his M.Sc. in Botany in 2004, and Ph.D. in Plant Science in 2011 from Karnatak University, Dharwad, India. He has published over 26 research articles in national and international journals, 10 book chapters, and 2 reviews and 16 conference abstracts. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at King Faisal University, under the supervision of Prof. Jameel M. Al-Khayri in KACST, Saudi Arabia on a project entitled “Bioreactor-mediated scale-up production of secondary metabolites from cell suspension culture of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)”. He has reviewed many international journal manuscripts.