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Personal Details

• Placed in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide in Agriculture and Natural Resources, as per ScholarGPS (California-based data analytics company)

• Ranked among top 2% of scientists of the world as per Stanford University USA for 5th consecutive year.

• Ranked 570 of 2000 scientists in the world in Plant Sciences & Agronomy as per research.com

• Member of the Executive Council of the International Union of Biological Sciences (France)(2023-26.)

• JC Bose National Fellow, Govt. of India since 2012. Two terms of 5 years each

• Fellow of all the 4 National Science Academies (FNA, FASc, FNASc, FNAAS) and recipient of UGC honorarium

• Recipient of the Haryana Vigyan Ratan Award

• Recipient of Punjab Rattan Award

• Recipient of the Commendation Honour of UT Chandigarh

• Former Chairman, State Expert Appraisal Committee of MoEF, New Delhi for Environmental Clearance for UT Chandigarh

• Former coordinator International working party 8.02.04 on Ecology of Alien Invasive of IUFRO Austria

• Expert in intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

• Member IUFRO International Task Force on Forests and Biological Invasions (2015-2020)

Academic Qualifications:

First class career throughout:

• Master of Science (M.Sc) in Botany,

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

• UNESCO-WHO PG Course in Biology (Praha)

Countries Visited:

For academic purpose only and on invitation and expenditure of the hosts

• The United States of America (USA)             6 times

• The Republic of China                               4 times           

• Czech Republic                                         4 times

• Japan                                                             2 times

• South Korea                                                  2 times

• Bangladesh                                                   2 times

• Canada                                                         1 time

• Hungary                                                        1 time

• Finland                                                          1 time

• Germany                                                       1 time

• Malaysia                                                        1 time

• Australia                                                        1 time

• Nepal                                                            1 time

• Singapore                                                      1 time

Personal:                                                      

Born: December 02, 1953, Gurgaon (Haryana), India

Education: V.K. Model Higher Secondary School, Rohtak; Government College, Rohtak; Panjab university, Chandigarh; Meerut University, Meerut; Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic.

Family:

Wife:               Principal (retd), Government College, Mohali;

Sons:              Elder: BE & ME (Power-Electronics) from USA - Working in USA

Younger:     MBBS,MD, DM Fellowship in Gastroenterology in USA and Working as Director of Endoscopy, in Veterans Hospital of Federal Govt. USA

Contact:           Villa # 423-423A, Phase-2, Pocket-3, Gate-3, Omaxe City, Mullanpur, Mohali 140901, India

Official:      Vice Chancellor, Amity University, Mohali-140306 India

E-mail:            (P) rkkohli45@yahoo.com & rkkohli45@gmail.com (off): rkkohli@pb.amity.edu vc@pb.amity.edu

Cell-phone:               098722 01516