Awdhesh Kumar Mishra has completed his Ph.D. in the field of Plant Biotechnology from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India. His Ph.D. focused on the characterization of a different functional aspect of the WD40 protein in foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and its evolutionary history. He joined the Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics-UPM, Madrid, Spain, as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2016), and then moved to another Postdoctoral position at the Department of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea (2017-2018). Subsequently, he was promoted to the present position, as an International Research Professor.