Girdhar Kumar Pandey

After securing a master's degree in biotechnology in 1994, he returned to Delhi to pursue for his doctoral research under the guidance of Sudhir Kumar Sopory which earned him a PhD in 1999 from Jawaharlal Nehru University for his thesis, Presence and role of homologues of E. histolytica Calcium binding protein in higher plants and characterization of a novel protein kinase from Brassica juncea.

[3] Pandey returned to India the same year to start his career by joining the University of Delhi at its south campus as a reader at the department of molecular biology and became a full professor in 2014.

He also served as a visiting professor at Capital Normal University, Beijing in 2012 and at the Institute of AgriBiotechnology of Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2015.

[6] Pandey's research focuses on the mechanistic interplay of signal transduction networks in plants under mineral nutrient deficiency and abiotic stresses.

[9] Besides, he has published 7 books,[7] including The UNC-53-mediated Interactome: Analysis of its Role in the Generation of the C. elegans Connectome,[10] GTPases: Versatile Regulators of Signal Transduction in Plants,[11] Global Comparative Analysis of CBL-CIPK Gene Families in Plants,[12] and Mechanism of Plant Hormone Signaling Under Stress - A Functional Genomic Frontier, a two-volume book published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2016[13] and has contributed chapters to books published by self and others.