Dr. Manav Indra Singh Gill joined PAU in 1992 and has 31 years of
experience in teaching, research and extension activities on Horticultural crops
at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. He has extensive Administrative
experience and has served on various key positions at PAU namely Dean College of
Horticulture & Forestry, Dean, College of Agriculture, Additional Director of
Research (Horticulture & Food Science), Additional Director of Extension
Education, Director PAMETI, Director Students Welfare, Registrar and Head,
Department of Fruit Science. He remained Officer-in-Charge of the ‘All India
Coordinated Research Project on Sub-Tropical Fruits’ for 10 years and was
awarded ‘Scroll of Appreciation’ in 2011 for the teamwork done at PAU under the
project.
Based on the research work done at PAU, Dr Gill has to his credit
30 research recommendations which are included in ‘Package of Practices of Fruit
Crops’ of PAU. Besides, he has handled 10 adhoc research projects funded by
International and national agencies. He has published research work in journals
of National and International repute. Dr Gill has extensive teaching experience
and has taught UG and PG courses in Horticulture and Plant Biotechnology.
Besides, he has guided 12 M.Sc. and 6 Ph.D. students have thesis work on
conventional and cutting edge science technologies. He remained Chairperson,
Research Committee of the Department of Fruit Science for a period 10 years.
Dr Gill is recipient of ‘Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship’
and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Nottingham, U.K. for 1 year.
Later, he was also a ‘Visiting Scientist’ and worked at State Agricultural
Biotechnology Centre (SABC), Perth-West Australia for 5 months. Dr Gill has the
distinction of being selected as Fellow of ‘The Horticultural Society of India’
in 2011. Recognizing significant contributions in field of horticulture, he was
awarded ‘Hans Raj Pahwa Award’ by Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. |