Dr. Neelesh Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, RLBCAU, Datia (M.P.), India. Before this position he worked as ad-hoc teaching faculty in the same place and guest faculty at the Department of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, GBPUAT Pantnagar. During his doctoral degree, he got a DST-INSPIRE (GOI) fellowship and was also a meritorious student in the master’s degree (DBT-BUILDER scholarship). He has a total of 8 years of experience in teaching, research, and extension. He has a total of 32 publications, including 17 journal articles, 3 books, and 13 book chapters. Dr. Kumar was awarded the Young Scientist Award, the Philippe Bodak Top HotDoc Award, and Research Excellence Awards. Dr. Kumar is serving as the Guest Associate Editor in Frontiers in Aquaculture and Mitochondrial DNA Part B and also reviewing for more than 50 international journals. He is a life member of various Scientific National and International Societies.