Dr Pushplata Singh has more than 16 years of post-PhD research experience.She presently works as a senior scientist in the Sustainable Agriculture Division, TERI, New Delhi and Director TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre, Gurugram. With a PhD in Human Genetics and Genomics and PostDoctoral experiences in Genomics of human diseases, plants and beneficial microbes; and industrial experience in development of advanced nanomaterials, she has the ability to collaborate with disparate partnersto drive alignment on business objectives and deliverables to achieve closure in a set time frame. She has to her credit “Centre of Excellence for Advanced Research in Agricultural Nanotechnology (CEARAN) and “DBT-TDNBC-DEAKIN Research Network Across continents for learning and innovation" (DTD-RNA) research projects funded by DBT, India. As a member of TERI team, her role in defining guidelines for the Government of India for safety assessment of NanoAgriProducts has been appreciated. She has independently established two facilities in TERI: Facility for Genomics and big data Analysis; and National facility for safety assessment ofnano agroproducts. She is an active member of “Asia Nano forum” and “EU-Asia forum”.