World Top 2% Scientist (Listed by Stanford University USA published by Elsevier Publishers (2023,2024)
Noel Deer Gold Medal from His Excellency President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam 2009 for research presentation from PhD thesis
In 2023, 2024 she has been listed as top 2% scientist category by Stanford University, U.S.A published by Elsevier Publisher metrics .
Dr. Vandana Vinayak belongs to Jalandhar Punjab, India and has moved places for education due to her family’s army background. She is younger sister of Shaheed (Martyr) Major Kapil Vinayak (The tenth officer martyr from Jalandhar, Punjab, India). Major Kapil Vinayak was from, 101 Regular Army batch who lost his life in Srinagar in an IED blast comprising of 100kg RDX. This was a Burnhall school car bomblast in 2005. The 101 Regular Army is the most decorated batch in Indian Army which has his coursemates who sacrificed their lives in Kargil war, counting martyrs like Capt. Vikram Batra (Shershaah), Capt. Haneef Ud-din, RR (Veer Chakra), Lt. Sachin Khindria, to name a few. This marks Dr Vandana Vinayak marking her email id as kapilvinayak@gmail.com in memory and honor of her elder brother.
Dr Vandana Vinayak is M.Sc and Ph.D Biochemistry from P.A.U Punjab and K.U Haryana, India respectively. She has worked in State Forensic Science Laboratory, Haryana, Madhuban for almost 7 years in Biology as well in Toxicology Division as SSA and Senior Scientific Officer and has reported ca. 4500 criminal cases on rape, hanging, poison suicide, hair, vomit, fibre, smuggling of woods, murder and drowning. Of this she reported ca. 5 cases of National importance (like Shopian Rape and murder case, Bhandhara rape and murder case, Headless body case etc.) She works on diatoms and its Bio nanotechnology aspects. She has expertise in tissue culturing, DNA profiling and sequencing, biochemical and analytic techniques using both basic and advanced microscopic, spectrophotometric and chromatographic techniques. She joined Dr Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India as Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Forensic Science, School of Applied science in 2013. Her work on diatoms for its use in diagnosing death due to postmortem or antemortem drowning, has been featured on cover page of Journal of Electrophoresis and Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Wiley. She has also worked widely on diatoms for biofuel (DiafuelTM) production and its use as anode material in various fuel cells (DSSC, perovskite and MFC). Treating wastewater rich in heavy metal pollutants (Toxicology) and remediating them, using diatoms via functionalized study or applied in biochemical oxidation techniques like Photosynthetic microalgal assisted Microbial fuel cells (PMAMFC) and studying the microbes diversity via metagenomics for green environment and sustainability is also her interest of study. Besides biofuel from diatoms her work has widened on fucoxanthin the high value product from diatom under various conditions of physical and chemical stress. She has also worked on Haematococcus lacustris a potential microalgae for astaxanthin and its transcriptomic and biochemical analysis for pigment analysis for commercialization and blue biotech processes and has made some start up products both from diatoms and Haematococcus for commercialization in forensic (Diatom nano-fingerprinting powder) and nutraceutical sectors in her Indo French project. She has proved Bubble farming techniques to be true by culturing diatoms in bubble wraps and air pillows and her current research results has future plans to take it to Mars for its Terraformation and taking microalgae as sustainable and whole food in space missions.
She has research projects from DST, DBT, UGC, INUP, IIT Bombay, NCPRE, IIT Bombay, DST Nanomission, GIAN-MHRD, Erasmus+Mundus, DST SERB, CEFIPRA Indo French (DST) etc. Dr Vinayak has visited prominent Foreign Institutes for academic and research in Cambridge University, United Kingdoms, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, UNESCO no. 1 Institute, Trieste, Italy, University Le Mans, France, University Nantes, France, CERN, Switzerland.
FCMS Award from Shri Gandhiji Founder and Director of CMS institution’s, UNESCO peace winning with its entry in Guinee’s book of World records, for work towards society
Young Scientist Award from Prof. Chibber University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Prof. Dhawan Kamtek USA in a DST conference.
Currently Dr. Vandana Vinayak works as Assistant Professor (School of Applied Sciences), Deptt of Crim. and Forensic Science at Dr. Hari Singh Gour Vishwavidhyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Dr. Vandana Vinayak.; Assistant Professor
Diatom Nano engineering and Metabolism Lab (Sustainable Algal Technologies and Valorization Group)
Deptt. Of Criminology and Forensic Science
School of Applied Sciences
Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya
(A Central University)
Sagar (Madhya Pradesh),470003, INDIA
Email: kapilvinayak@gmail.com; vvinayak@dhsgsu.edu.in
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