Consecutively for the 3rd year, Ranked among top 2% of scientists of the world as per Stanford University USA & Elsevier:

• JC Bose National Fellow, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India: second term ongoing
• Fellow of all the 4 National Science Academies (FNA, FASc, FNASc, FNAAS) and recipient of UGC honorarium
• Recipient of the Haryana Vigyan Ratan Award
• Recipient of Punjab Rattan Award
• Recipient of the Commendation Honour of UT Chandigarh
• Former Chairman, State Expert Appraisal Committee of MoEF, New Delhi for Environmental Clearance for UT Chandigarh
• Former coordinator International working party 8.02.04 on Ecology of Alien Invasive of IUFRO Austria
• Member Task Force on Biological Invasions

 

Academic Qualifications:

First class career throughout:

• Master of Science (M.Sc) in Botany,
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
• UNESCO-WHO PG Course in Biology (Praha)

 

Countries Visited:

For academic purpose only and on invitation and expenditure of the hosts

• The United States of America (USA)             6 times
• The Republic of China                                   4 times           
• Czech Republic                                             4 times
• Japan                                                             2 times
• South Korea                                                  2 times
• Bangladesh                                                   2 times
• Canada                                                         1 time
• Hungary                                                        1 time
• Finland                                                          1 time
• Germany                                                       1 time
• Malaysia                                                        1 time
• Australia                                                        1 time
• Nepal                                                            1 time
• Singapore                                                      1 time

 

Personal:                                                      

Born: December 02, 1953, Gurgaon (Haryana), India

Education: V.K. Model Higher Secondary School, Rohtak; Government College, Rohtak; Panjab university, Chandigarh; Meerut University, Meerut; Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic.

 

Family:

Wife:               Principal (retd), Government College, Mohali;

Sons:              Elder: BE & ME (Power-Electronics) from USA - Working in USA

Younger:         MBBS,MD, DM Fellowship in Gastroenterology in USA and Working as Director of Endoscopy, in Veterans Hospital of Federal Govt. USA

Contact:           Villa # 423-423A, Phase-2, Pocket-3, Gate-3, Omaxe City, Mullanpur, Mohali 140901, India

Official:          Vice Chancellor, Amity University, Mohali-140306 India

E-mail:            (P) rkkohli45@yahoo.com & rkkohli45@gmail.com (off): rkkohli@pb.amity.edu vc@pb.amity.edu

Cell-phone:               098722 01516