Dr Shyam Sundar Sharma has over 8 years of research experience in the field of plant molecular biology. He is agricultural biotechnologist and has completed his PhD from TERI University, New Delhi in year 2015 on molecular characterization of Pongamia pinnata to identify high yielding genotypes with high oil content for generation of high quality planting stock. He has used AFLP, ISSR, microsatellites and recently GBS markers in different crop plants for genetic diversity assessment, development of core germplasm, population structure, molecular mapping and marker-assisted breeding. He has 15 research articles to his credit in peer reviewed journals.