Adjunct Professor May 2017 -till date at the University of Western, Australia Professor April 2013- Till date (Teaching & Research) Associate Professor April 2007 – March 2013 (Teaching & Research) Assistant Professor August 2003-March 2007 (Teaching & Research) School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi-67 CREST Fellow April 2012 – July 2012 (DBT-Overseas) Professor Oliver Fiehn (Metabolomics) University of California, Davis, USA Visiting Fellow April 2006- June 2006 (INSA-Royal Society) Professor R A Leigh University of Cambridge, U.K. ‘BOYSCAST’ Fellow May 2002-July 2002 (DST) Professor Hans Bohnert UIUC, IL, USA Lecturer June 1999-August 2003 (Teaching & Research) School of Biotechnology, GGS Indraprastha University, Kashmere Gate, Delhi-110007 [Integrated course of 512years B.Tech/M.Tech in Biotechnology] Research Scientist August 1998—June 1999 Professor Deepak Pental, Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi Department of Genetics, University of Delhi South Campus Post-Doctoral Fellow June 1997 – July 1998 (The Rockefeller Found.) Professor Ralph S Quatrano Dept. of Biology, University of North Carolina, USA

Functional genomics, Forward and reverse genetics, abiotic stress and crop biotechnology