National Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Prof. Rajeev K. Varshney
FOREIGN FELLOW, ELECTED 2010

Born in Bahjoi, Moradabad, U.P, India on 13 July 1973. Educated at C.P. Arya Adarsh Inter College, Bahjoi, 1986-1990; Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 1990- 1995; Ch Charan Singh University, Meerut, 1995-2001; B.Sc. (Honours) 1993; M.Sc. 1995; Ph.D. 2001.

International Chair- Agriculture & Food Security, 2022 to date; Director, Centre for Crop & Food Innovation, 2022 to date; & Director, WA State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, 2022 to date, Murdoch University, Australia

Research Program Director- AResearch Program Director-Genetic Gains, 2016- 202; Director - Center of Excellence in Genomics & Systems Biology, 2012- 2022; Principal Scientist-Applied Genomics, 2008-2022; Research Program Director-Grain Legumes, 2013-16; Senior Scientist-Applied Genomics, 2005-08; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India; Research Scientist, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics & Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, 2001-05.

Awards/Honours: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (Biological Sciences), 2015 by Govt of India; Certificate and Honor for Outstanding Science Contribution- 2018 by Uttar Pradesh Government; Outstanding Faculty Research Award- 2018 by Carrers360; Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters for last five years in a row in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018; Qilu Friendship Award- 2016 by People's Government of Shandong Province, China; Research Excellence India Citation Award - 2015 by Thomson Reuters; Doreen Margaret Mashler Award-2016 (the most prestigious award of ICRISAT) by ICRISAT Governing Board; IPGI Leadership Award-2017 by the International Peanut Genome Initiative; Young Crop Scientist Award of Crop Science Society of America in 2013; Senior Scientist Award-2015 by Association of Biotechnology & Pharmacy (ABAP), The Illumina Agricultural Greater Good Initiative Award-2013; NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award-2010; INSA-Young Scientist Medal- 2008 by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA); NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award-2007; ICRISAT Promising Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award, 2007 & 2008; AMU Gold Medal, 1995.

Fellow: Royal Society of London (FRS); American Association for Advancement in Sciences (AAAS); German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); Crop Science Society of America (CSSA); Agronomy Society of America (ASA); African Academy of Sciences (AAS); Indian National Science Academy (INSA); Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc); The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI); Telangana State Akademi of Sciences (TSAS); Indian Society for Genetics and Plant Breeding; Indian Society for Pulses Research & Development; Indian Botanical Society; Association of Biotechnology & Pharmacy (ABAP).

Research Areas: Applied Genomics and Molecular Breeding

Address: International Chair in Agriculture & Food Security, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150; [Tel: Cell: +61 438742294; Email: rajeev.varshney@murdoch.edu.au; varshney.raj@gmail.com]

Foreign Secretary 1 Jan, 2022; Member Executive Council 1 Jan, 2019 to 31 Dec, 2021; NAAS Associate, 2008