Dr. Mahipal Singh Kesawat received a Master of Science in Biotechnology (Specialization in Agricultural Biotechnology) from the Department of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur (CG), India. Post-graduation, he moved to New Delhi and joined the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), IARI, New Delhi, India. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a senior research fellow (SRF) at NRCPB. Then, he moved to South Korea in late 2009 and joined the School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University as a research associate. He received his PhD in August 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Choo Bong Hong at the School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. He was a post-doctoral associate at the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju, South Korea. He also worked as a research professor at the Department of System Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. He is currently working as an assistant professor and Head of the Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Sri Sri University, Odisha, India.