Prof. Dr. Dipjyoti Chakraborty

Dipjyoti is a passionate researcher and academician with more than 20 years experience in the area of Life Sciences. His research interests include plant microbe interactions, agricultural biotechnology and he is currently working to increase drought and salinity tolerance in crop legumes, especially pulses. He is also actively engaged in mentoring agri-entrepreneurial ventures and Startups.

Having done his Masters in Botany and Ph.D. in Medicinal plants-micropropagation from the University of Burdwan, he went on to do two post-docs, first from IIT Kharagpur on secondary metabolite pathway elucidation and latter from Bose Institute, Kolkata in proteomics studies in plant diseases. He has since joined Banasthali Vidyapith and is currently the Head of the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology and also Dean, Research and Development. He has successfully implemented several institutional and individual projects and has more than 50 research publications of high impact to his credit. He along with other team members has been instrumental in developing an innovation ecosystem at the Vidyapith and is motivating students participate in entrepreneurial activities.

Dipjyoti is also instrumental in bringing together a group of researchers to explore new in emerging areas like artificial intelligence, drug discovery and development, cancer biology and with a strong focus to help solve nationally and globally significant issues through socially relevant, trans-disciplinary, innovative research.