Vartika Mathur
Vartika Mathur (27 August 1979, New Delhi, India) is a Professor in the Department of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. Dr. Mathur was the only Indian to have received the prestigious NFP fellowship in 2008 from Nuffic - an organization in partnership with Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands) and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This fellowship enabled her to pursue a PhD in Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Professors Louise Vet and Nicole van Dam. She worked in the Netherlands and India for four years and was awarded a  PhD in 2012. Dr. Mathur was awarded the European Mobility Grant for International Laureates by the International Doctoral College of the European University of Brittany (CDI-UEB) in 2010 to perform research in University of Rennes, France. She has been awarded the "Young Scientist of the year Award 2015" in the field of Chemical Ecology by the International Foundation of Environment and Ecology. Dr. Mathur is the host supervisor for a six-month Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists (RTF-DCS) for Melesse Anjulo Tora (2014-2015) from Ethiopia and Jean Augustin Rubabura Kituta (2015-2016) from DRC Congo  funded by NAM S&T Centre. Dr. Mathur has been running independent animal-plant interactions research lab since 2011 at Sri Venkateswara College and has supervised four research projects (one ongoing) as principal investigator and two projects as co-investigator (one ongoing) since 2008. Dr. Mathur has several publications in various international and national peer-reviewed journals, with a total impact of 17.66. She has authored an ecology book for undergraduate students. She has given oral and poster presentations in several international and national conferences and symposiums. She has been the associate editor for "Biojournal" since 2013 and a reviewer in  several international journals of high repute. Publications. Dr. Vartika Mathur is very active in the field of publication as well, she has contributed to 14 papers, 4 books and 8 Chapters and one patent. Following are recent publications : Books: Book chapters and e-chapters: Career. Dr. Mathur has a research and teaching experience of more than 15 years in the field of insect-plant-microbe interactions. She has been running independent research lab (Animal-Plant-Interactions Lab) since 2011 with major research grants obtained from various National and International grants by government and private organisations like SERB, UGC, NAM S&T  Centre, University of Delhi, Nuffic, Eureka Forbes and PI industries. She is also a recognised Independent PhD supervisor from Department of Zoology, University of Delhi and has been a supervisor for 13 Bachelors, 6 Masters Students for summer/winter training; 4 Masters Dissertations, one JRF/SRF and 3 International doctoral and post doctoral students since 2014. She is also the research advisor for Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders, AIIMS, New Delhi. She is invited Speaker and resource person for research methodology for various Institutions. She is also the Associate editor for Biojournal, member of International Society of Chemical  Ecology(ISCE) and reviewer in International journals of high repute. Dr. Mathur has a teaching experience of more than 16 years, she started her career as an assistant professor in 2003 at Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi. She then moved to Sri Venkateswara College and has been teaching there since as Assistant Professor, in the Department of Zoology. Dr. Mathur is a very proactive Scientist and has been into various extramural and administrative activities. She has presented posters and given oral presentations at various national and international forums. Apart from this, she has been a resource person for many workshops  and seminars as well. External Links. Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrVartikaMathu1?s=08 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vartika-mathur-a2285820/?originalSubdomain=in Website: https://apilab.co.in/ Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=t59qBjQAAAAJ&hl=en Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vartika-Mathur-2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ0doJ-QY2E8ULqi97sozGA