User:Praveenvootla

Dr. Pindi Pavan Kumar is a dynamic personality in the present research arena of life sciences, with more than 12 years of research experience, whose thrust area is Molecular biology of bioinoculants and bacterial diversity. He did his Ph.D from Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India under the able guidance of Prof S. Ram Reddy and did his PDF from Germany as DAAD fellow. Dr. Pindi worked for more than 8 years as a Post doctoral fellow at CCMB under the esteemed supervision of Dr. Shivaji, Assistant Director, CCMB, Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh, India. He identified novel bacteria from stratosphere in collaboration with ISRO & NASA. Presently, he is in Palamuru University, as Associate Professor & Head, Dept of Microbiology, he isolated and identified 3 novel bacterial species and named them as Bacillus palamurensis etc. For his contributions to the scientific field he was awarded Young Scientist Award by DST, Jewel of India, Commendation Certificate, (for his services by the district Collector of Mahabubnagar) etc. To his credit he got more than 50 publications in good impact factor journals.

Apart from the Academic side he is a cool person with lot of respect for others and affectionate towards friends and students. By '''Praveen Kumar Vootla '''