Veenu Kaul, Professor

Botany

After graduating from Government College for Women, MA Road, Srinagar (University of Kashmir) Professor Kaul post-graduated in Botany from University of Jammu in 1994. She secured first position for which  Gold medal and certificate of merit was  awarded to her. During her post-graduation, she cleared Science Talent Promotion Test conducted by the then J & K’s Department of Science and Technology (now JKST&IC) and received certificate and scholarship for two years. She also cleared NET-JRF conducted jointly by CSIR-UGC in 1995. Her research work focused on a rare phenomenon of underground flowering that was widely recognized and doctorate degree conferred in the year 1999. Her first appointment was in the higher education department through Public Service Commission at Government Degree College, Kathua in 2000. After a brief stint of 45-50 days, she got selected as Assistant Professor in the University of Jammu. Since then she has been actively involved in teaching and research in Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Reproductive Biology. Till date, fifteen students have been awarded Ph. D. and twelve M. Phil. under her supervision. Most of the awardees are placed in research institutes, university, colleges and higher secondary schools. Professor Kaul has had the privilege of getting funds from leading agencies of Govt. of India like DST, DBT, CSIR, JKST&IC having undertaken 6 projects (5 completed and 1 ongoing). More than 95 papers in reputed national and international journals, 9 book and 3 e- chapters of INFLIBNET,  are to her credit. She has bagged many awards at different scientific and academic forums. Some important ones include J & K DST’s Young Scientist award (2005), Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Young Botanist Award (2001) and Woman Scientist Gold medal (2012) of Indian Botanical Society. She is the editor as well as reviewer of many national and international journals. Recently Professor Veenu have been nominated as Member of National Academy of Sciences India, Allahabad.

Department of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu-180006

 

H. No. 15,

Saini Enclave,

Camp Road,

Talab Tilloo,

Jammu-180002

veenukaul@jammuuniversity.ac.in      Mob: (9419137180)