Department of Biosciences, DAV (PG) College, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Dr. Abhinav Aeron was born and raised in the city of Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh). He completed his Masters in Microbiology from DAV (PG) College (Ch. CS University, Meerut), Muzaffarnagar and Doctorate in Microbiology from Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar-249 404, Uttarakhand, India. He worked as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and further as a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) under Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology (UCOST, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Uttarakhand) sponsored while pursuing his Doctorate on Diversity of rhizobia in Medicinal legumes. He also went to pursue post doctoral fellowship at Chonbuk National University, Iksan, South Korea. He served as Assistant Professor (on contract) in Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University for 6 months and then shifted to Department of Biosciences, DAV (PG) College (Ch. CS University, Meerut), Muzaffarnagar as a Lecturer. Further he worked in Sharda University, Greater Noida and Dolphin PG Institite, Dehradun as Assistant Professor. He has guided 4 Masters Dissertation and has 6 edited books along with 32 publications with h-index of 11 and i10 index of 13. His research interests include Plant Microbial Interactions, biocontrol, bioformulation, rhizospheric microbiology and has reported new plant associated bacteria from root nodules of Clitoria ternatea L.