Agriculture and Science

Prof. Subramanian Babu is currently working as a Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and has a background in plant pathology. With international research experience as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Angers, France; University of Alberta, Canada; Pennsylvania State University, USA; Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, USA; and Florida Atlantic University, USA, he is trained in plant and microbial molecular biology, genomics and proteomics, genetic engineering, plant biotechnology, etc. He has 20+ years of teaching and research experience in agriculture and biotechnology. He also served as Associate Dean for Academic Research and as Dean of the School of Agriculture at the Vellore Institute of Technology in India, before joining UKZN.

He has successfully supervised 10 Ph.D. students and 40+ M.Sc./M.Tech. students. With an h-index of 22 (Web of Science), Prof. Babu has published 90 papers in journals, 8 book chapters, one edited book, and 43 popular scientific articles. He and his students have presented their research work at more than 209 conferences. He is a member of editorial board in BMC Plant Biology, review editor in Frontiers in Plant Science and reviewer of manuscripts in many high impact journals. He also holds a CMI Level 5 certificate in Management and Leadership awarded by the Chartered Management Institute, UK.