Committee Members

Anjali Prashad is currently an assistant professor at Ramanujan College, University of Delhi to undergraduate students of B.A. Honors Economic, B.A. Programme and B. Com Honors. Dr. Prashad joined as a Research Consultant (Professional Service Agreement) in September 2015 at the Development Planning Center of Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 2016 and M. Phil in 2012 in Economics from the Centre for International Trade & Development, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her expertise lies in the area of applied econometrics with core focus in climate change, derivative markets and banking regulations. Her publications are listed with World Development Sustainability, Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy, Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies and Economic Political Weekly. She spearheaded several policy-research projects of NITI Aayog, 15th Finance Commission, Government of India and State Governments of India.

Dr. Brigitta Tóth is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Food Science, University of Debrecen, Hungary. She earned her MSc degrees in Agricultural Engineering (2009) and Agricultural Environmental Management Engineering (2012), followed by a PhD in Crop Production and Horticulture in 2012. She later completed her habilitation in 2018 in the same field. Her research focuses on plant stress physiology, wheat quality, heavy metal toxicity in plants, and the use of bacterial products and bioeffectors to mitigate stress. She has also studied phosphorus mobilization, the impact of fungal infections such as rusts and powdery mildew on enzymatic responses in host plants, and the utilization of industrial by-products in agriculture. With over 100 publications and around 750 citations, Dr. Tóth has made significant contributions to crop science and sustainable agriculture. She continues her work in advancing plant stress research and food science at the University of Debrecen.

Professor Jinbo Shen is a plant molecular cell biologist and Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University (ZAFU), where he also serves as a doctoral supervisor. He obtained his Bachelor’s (2001) and Master’s (2008) degrees in Science from Zhejiang Normal University, followed by a PhD in Biology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013, where he later conducted postdoctoral research. In 2018, he joined Zhejiang A&F University as a faculty member. Professor Shen has been recognized with several prestigious honors, including selection as a National Youth Talent, Zhejiang Province Overseas Innovation Talent, recipient of the Excellent Young Scientist Fund of Zhejiang Province, and participant in the province’s High-Level Leading Talent Training Program in Higher Education. His research focuses on protein trafficking and sorting within the plant endosomal–vacuole system, the molecular mechanisms of nutrient storage protein sorting during seed development, and how vacuolar protein sorting responds to environmental stresses such as drought. He has also developed advanced organelle biology tools, including fluorescent marker systems and transient expression methods for plant cells. Professor Shen has published widely in leading journals, with recent works including studies on mitochondrial energy homeostasis in Moso bamboo, live measurement of organelle pH in plants, and the role of ESCRT protein ALIX in receptor-mediated vacuolar protein sorting.

Prof. Wei QIAN has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Huazhong Agriculture University and postdoctoral studies from Kiel University. He is the director of Chongqing rapeseed research centre. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals.