Prof. Sunil Kumar Khare

Prof. Sunil K. Khare is the Institute Chair Professor of Biochemistry (HAG) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Prof Khare received his doctoral degree in Biochemistry(1990) from IIT Delhi and did his Postdoctoral research at the National Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan. He has served as the Dean (Research and Development)and Dean (Corporate Relations) of IIT Delhi. Prof. Khare has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience with 220+ research publications (h-index of 52), five product/ process patents, 22 book chapters, and books. He has deposited many microbial strains to MTCC and submitted50+ sequences to the National GenBank. He has guided several master's and PhD students. His noteworthy contributions have been in the area of extremophiles and enzyme technology for seminal applications in nano, food, and environmental biotechnology. His current research focuses on haloarchaea, antimicrobial resistance, micro/nano plastics, biobased platform chemicals, and nano-delivery of drugs/nutraceuticals. Prof. Khare holds a good reputation in the international research community. He has beeninvited as a visiting Professor to the University of Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France (2018 and 2014). He was a Visiting Fellow (DBT) at Northern Regional Research Laboratory, USDA, Peoria, IL, USA (2006). Prof. Khare has been honored with several awards and fellowships. Some of his notable awards are the IITD BasicScience Research Award 2021, the United Nations- Amway Award 1998, and the Malaviya Memorial Faculty Award 2018. He is also an elected fellow of prestigious societies like the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) UK; IBP France; UNU-Kirin Japan; NAAS; BRSI; AMI, India.  Prof. Khare is currently the President-Elect of the Association of Microbiologists of India and the Vice-President of the Biotech Research Society of India. He also serves as associate Editor for 3 Biotech (Springer), BMC Biotechnology, and Editorial board member for Insight in Enzyme Research. He is a member of the Board of Studies of various universities.