Dr. Sumira Jan has worked out numerous medicinal plants, focusing on their phyto-geographical distribution, ontogenetic changes, chemical profiling, chemo diversity, and pharmaceutical potential. She received BioCaRe Early Career Scientist Award (2014), prestigious Fast Track Young Scientist Award (2015) and CSIR pool scientist award (2018). She has published over 40 research papers, 16 book chapters and four books (Three with Elsevier and One with Springer). All these books are authored versions focused on the abiotic stress, eco-physiology and metabolomics of various crops. Dr. Gowhar Hussain Bhat, Ph.D in theoretical nuclear physics. He has worked on “Triaxial Projected Shell Model Study of Transitional Nuclei. This work has been published in journals of international repute. He has published more than 111 research articles in the reputed international journals and is working in collaboration with numerous international organizations. He is also engaged in teaching as well as supervising the research of postgraduate and doctorate students. He was awarded with Alburuj R. Rahman Prize sponsored by the University of Kashmir in Collaboration with Ohio State University of USA.