Dr. Vijay Kumar was awarded Ph. D. in Biotechnology on topic: “Antibacterial metabolites from actinomycetes of diverse habitats and locations of Uttarakhand?, from Biotechnology Department of H.N.B. Garhwal Central University, Srinagar. His Research Interest mainly includes: actinobacteria genomics, engineering the expression of silent natural product biosynthetic gene clusters, expanding the chemical space of natural products using bioengineering, bioengineering bespoke chemical scaffolds. He is the executive editor of International Journal of Microbiology.