Current Position:
Assistant Professor at ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology
06/2025 –Present:
- Awarded INSPIRE Faculty 2024 by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
- Leading a research program on Plant-Pathogen Evolution
- Developing predictive frameworks for virulence evolution in Indian crop pathogens
Previous Positions:
Postdoctoral Fellow at BHU, Varanasi
01/2025 –05/2025:
- Awarded Raja Jwala Prasad Postdoctoral Fellow
- Working on Transcriptome and metabolome profiling of PGPR (Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria) in rice
Young Professional II at ICAR-IIAB
02/2024 – 01/2025
- Designed research to enhance growth and yield in crop plants
- Investigated transposable elements in high-protein crops
- Performed BSA sequencing and analysis (DNA and RNA)
Research Associate at Uni. of Kiel, Germany
08/2022 – 09/2023
- Led research team investigating genetic drivers of diversity in asexual phytopathogens
- Developed and taught M.Sc. bioinformatics and genomics course
- Maintained departmental research database
Postdoctoral Researcher at TUM, Germany
08/2021 – 07/2022
- Collaborative research with BASF on wheat pathogens
- Led field sampling and genetic data analysis
- Revealed migration patterns and genomic diversity of plant pathogen population
NGS & Pipelines
RNA-Seq, DESeq2, HISAT2, GATK, genome assembly
Workflow Automation
Snakemake, Bash scripting, Docker
Visualization & Dashboards
R Shiny, ggplot2, tidyverse, Python matplotlib
Singh Decodes Omics 