Dr Atul Kumar is an Agricultural graduate from RAU Pusa Bihar.

Dr Kumar is Masters (2000) and Doctorate (2004) from Division of Plant Pathology, IARI New Delhi.

In his short career of 14 years he has received several prestigious awards like IARI Merit Medal for Ph.D in 2005,Suniti Bala Ray chaudhary award for best Ph.D student of Division of Plant Pathology IARI New Delhi in 2005,Post Doc from Brisbane Australia for six months in 2008-09,DST Young Scientist award in 2012 ,One Variety BIRSA CHANA-3 released from SVRC Jharkhand is credited to his name as pathologist. He has published more than 50 research articles in various National and International journals.

Apart from this he has been author of two books and more than 60 popular articles. Five master’s degrees have been awarded under his guidance and he is guiding 4 Ph.D students at present.

Many awards and recognitions from various scientific societies of the country like best oral, best poster, chairman in international conference etc has been received by him.

He has been PI of four externally funded project from DST and ICAR.