Dr. Ashutosh Sharma (M.Sc., M.Phil., PGDAEM, Ph.D.) is a dedicated researcher working in the area Plant-microbe interaction, Plant Biotechnology and Stress biology. He has qualified GATE Life Science (Percentile score 99.18), CSIR-UGC NET-LS, CSIR-UGC-NET-JRF and ICAR-NET. He has received his PhD degree from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He has more than 150 publications (research papers, review articles and book chapters) in the Journals/Books of International repute. He has edited 6 books with publishers of international repute and authored two. He is also the recipient of the Young Scientist Award by the Punjab Academy of Sciences for his research work. He has three GenBank nucleotide sequence contributions and three MTCC microbial type culture collection contributions. He has participated in many national and International conferences and has more than 12 years of teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has received two major research project grants from DST-SERB, Govt. of India, and CSIR, Govt. of India, as the Co-Principal Investigator, and three minor research project grants funded by DAV College Managing Committee as the Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigator. Three students have completed their PhD under his supervision.