Dr Pushplata Singh is working as Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Nano Commercial Production area of Sustainable Agriculture Division. With 23 years of experience in the Biotechnology sector, Dr Pushplata’ s expertise spans across areas such as Genome wide association studies, Genome analysis, improvement of biofertilizers, nutrient use efficiency, nano-fertilizers, nano-pesticides, application of nanomaterials for pharmaceuticals and other environmental applications. At TERI, she is involved in Nano Research and Commercial production (NCP); Mitigation of greenhouse gas emission (GHG) from agriculture; Improvement of soil organic carbon (SOC), improvement of biofertilizers, development of bio-control formulations, technologies for climate resilient agriculture and development of policies for Agriculture.
Dr Pushplata is a member of advisory committees including, BIS Metallurgical Engineering Department- Nanotechnologies Sectional Committee MTD 33 (mtd33), BioNanoNet (BNN) and International Initiative for Safe and Sustainable Nanotechnology (INISS). She holds a Ph. D. in Interdisciplinary Sciences with a major in Genetics from the University of Delhi, India.
Email: pushplata.singh@teri.res.in