Professor Mahendra Rai
Visiting Professor
Professor Mahendra Rai,PhD
Email: mahendra.rai@v.umk.pl
Telephone (56) 611 4384
Room: C143
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8rykdvYAAAAJ&hl=en
http://www.amazon.com/Mahendra-Rai/e/B001JP7S5A
Orcid ID 0000-0003-0291-0422
Research interests:
Microbial biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology- bioinspired synthesis of nanoparticles, Understanding the mechanism, Plants and nano-based antimicrobials
Awards and Fellowships
- Father T.A. Mathias award, 1989 by All India Association for Christian Higher Education, New Delhi for excellence in teaching and research.
- Elected Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, 2016
- Awarded SERC visiting fellowship by DST, New Delhi, 1996
- Awarded INSA visiting fellowship, 1998
- Visiting scientist award (from April-June, 1999), Turin, Italy
- Medini award for book on Herbal Medicines, by Govt of India, June 5, 2001
- Associateship for 3-years by TWAS, Trieste, Italy to work on AM fungi in Brazil, 2003
- Visiting Scientist, Department of Bioenergetics, University of Geneva, Switzerland, May-June, 2004
- Hungarian Scholarship by Hungarian Scholarship Board, to visit Department of Plant Protection, Debrecen University, Hungary (October 2005-January 2006, and 2008).
- Awarded by IDVL for yeoman services in Microbiology 2005
- Visiting Scientist, Biological Chemistry Laboratory, State University of Campinas, Under Indo-Brazil collaborative Project sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and CNPq, Brazil Government (Three visits :2009, 2011, 2012)
- Visiting Professor, Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun Poland (2012, 2014)
- Visiting Scientist, Institute of Chemistry, State University of Campinas in 2013
- Visiting Scientist, Nanotechnology Center, VSB Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2015
- Visiting Professor Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Rosario, Argentina (2016)
- Basic Science Research Faculty Fellowship by University Grants Commission, New Delhi, Government of India (2017-2020)
- Life Time Achievement Award on March 22, 2018 at the hands of Smt Pratibha Patil, Honorable Former President of India
- Featured in Stanford’s list of top 2% scientists under Nanoscience and nanotechnology (3rd)
Other links
tech/science/article33043379.ece/binary/IndiansWorldRanking.pdf
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918