Birth & Educations: Dr. Anurag Kashyap (Date of Birth: 08.07.1988, Place of Birth: Jorhat, Assam) is a Gold medal recipient at B.Sc. (Agri.) and M.Sc. (Agri.) degree from Assam Agricultural University and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain in 2021. In the year 2016, he received the Netaji Subhas - Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) - International Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. studies at Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain.

Positions hold: Assistant Professor, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (29.08.2014 till date)

Awards/Honours: Extraordinary PhD award - Autonomous University of Barcelona (2025); Best oral presentation award (1st prize); 10th Indian Horticulture Congress 2023; Selected for paper presentation at European Congress on Microbiology held in Vienna, Austria - National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) (2023); Best research poster award (1st prize) - Indian Phytopathological Society Zonal symposium 2022. Award of Excellent cum laude title to Doctoral thesis - Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (2021); Award of Netaji Subhas-Indian Council of Agricultural Research-International Fellowship - Indian Council of Agricultural Research (2016); University Gold Medal in B.Sc (Agri) degree programme - Assam Agricultural University (2012).

Fellow: Netaji Subhas- Indian Council of Agricultural Research - International Fellow (2017-2021)

Research Areas: Plant-microbe interaction, Molecular diagnostics, Plant Immune response, Phytochemical biopesticides, Industrial microbiology