Dr. Abhishek Kumar is a plant ecologist currently working as a RUSA Post-Doctoral Fellow at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He also worked at Project Associate at ICAR–National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. in Botany (Plant Ecology) from the Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, with a dissertation titled “Climate-Driven Elevational Shifting of Plant Distributions in the Selected Sites of Siwaliks of North-Western India.”