Vijay Kumar Dalal

Assistant Professor (Temporary) in Botany at Dayalbagh Educational Institute; managing horticulture and polyhouse crop cultivation, supervising teaching and research activities since Dec 2022.

Freelance AI Trainer and Biology SME at Outlier.ai, crafting and evaluating prompts, comparing LLM responses, and generating domain-specific prompts for model evaluation.

Guest Assistant Professor in Botany at DEI from Oct 2019 to Dec 2022; taught undergraduate courses and supported departmental research and horticulture management.

Assistant Manager at BBIL, Hyderabad (Apr 2017–Sep 2018) coordinating operations and project activities within a biotech environment.

Research Associate in Prof. Baishnab C. Tripathy's lab at JNU conducting experiments on plant stress physiology and photosynthesis, including biochemical assays and data analysis.

Research Associate at University of Hyderabad (Nov 2015–Oct 2016) investigating plant stress responses and photosynthetic processes using molecular and biochemical techniques.

Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Plant Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Oct 2012–Sep 2015) conducting collaborative plant biology research with the Weizmann Institute.

PhD researcher (Jan 2008–Oct 2012) studying drought stress effects on chloroplast biogenesis and photosynthesis using proteomics, TEM, IRGA, and biochemical assays; awarded PhD June 2012.

Research student at the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Göttingen (Feb–Oct 2007) developing a transgenic mouse model and performing FACS, cell culture, and molecular assays.

Junior Research Fellow at JNU (Sep 2003–Jan 2007) contributing to plant biology research and experimental work in the School of Life Sciences.

Junior Research Fellow at University of Delhi's Ambedkar Centre (Oct 2002–Jul 2003) studying enzyme purification, trypsin auto-digestion, and synthesis/analysis of urease inhibitors.

MTech project (Jul 2000–Jan 2002) on production of rosmarinic acid from Ocimum sanctum callus cultures; optimized media and elicitor treatments to enhance yield.

Activities and societies: Thesis: Effect of drought stress on chloroplast biogenesis and photosynthesis.

PhD on the effect of drought stress on chloroplast biogenesis and photosynthesis; registered at Maharshi Dayanand University and co-advised at Jawaharlal Nehru University, degree awarded June 5, 2012.

Grade: 7.88/10 (First Class)

Activities and societies: Master's project: Production of rosmarinic acid (RA) from Ocimum sanctum callus cultures.

Master of Technology in Applied Botany with a project on production of rosmarinic acid from holy basil callus cultures.

Master of Science in Agrochemicals and Pest Management.

Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Botany.

Research student project on generation of a transgenic Mecp2-EGFP mouse model for Rett syndrome studies (Feb–Oct 2007).