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Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India. His research areas include soil science, climate change and environmental pollution. He Joined as Director of ICAR-National Rice Research Institute (NRRI), Cuttack, Odisha on August 1, 2016. Earlier he served as Principal Scientist, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi (2009-16); Professor, Discipline of Environmental Sciences, IARI (2013-16); He also worked as a visiting scientist in University of Essex, United Kingdom; IRRI, Philippines; CSIRO Land and Water, Australia and Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Germany. He is Fellow of Indian National Science Academy; National Academy of Sciences, India; National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. He is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship of Germany; Silver Jubilee Commemoration Medal of INSA; Golden Jubilee Commemoration Young Scientist Award of the Indian Society of Soil Science; BOYSCAST Fellowship of Department of Science and Technology (DST); Young Scientist Award, Dr. BC Deb Memorial Award, Prof. SK Mukherjee Commemoration Award and Platinum Jubilee Award Lecture by Indian Science Congress Association(ISCA) and Recognition Award of NAAS. He was the Lead Author of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report. He is also the Lead Author of IPCC for updating GHG inventory. Dr. Pathak was the Coordinator for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Dept. of Research and Education (DARE), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India and received IRRI, Philippines Outstanding Administrative Support Award. Currently, he is the President of Association of Rice Research Workers, Cuttack, Odisha and Executive President of Society for Conservation of Nature, New Delhi. He published more than 170 research papers, 30 review papers, 25popular articles, 13 books, 15 technical bulletins and 75 book chapters.

Dr Sharmistha Pal is working as Scientist in Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)- Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Chandigarh, India till 2008. Her fields of specialization are Soil science, soil chemistry, fertility and microbiology. She obtained B. Sc. (Agriculture) from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswa Vidyalaya, West Bengal, India; M.Sc and Ph.D from Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. Specifically, she worked on aluminum-organic acids interaction in rice rhizosphere in acid soil; iron dynamics under aerobic rice as influenced by its sources and methods of application; soil carbon sequestration, soil and water conservation. She got U.K. Commonwealth Fellowship (2007) during PhD program for carrying out research at the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; Dr. S. P. Raychaudhuri Gold Medal from Indian Society of Soil Science , New Delhi (2008); Jawaharlal Nehru Award for outstanding Postgraduate Agricultural Research from ICAR (2010); Young Scientist Award (Agriculture and Forestry Sciences) from Indian Science Congress Association (2011); Endeavour Cheung Kong Award for Post doctoral research at the University of Adelaide, Australia from Australian Government Department of Education (2014); Pran Vohra Award (Agriculture and Forestry Sciences) from Indian Science Congress Association (2016); Young Soil Conservationist Award from Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists, Dehradun (2017). She has published around 50 research publications including research papers, book-chapters, book, popular articles, bulletin etc.