Dr. Niraj Rai
Dr. Niraj Rai is a Scientist C and Group Head of the Ancient
DNA Lab at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow. He is a molecular
biologist by training, specializing in the use of next-generation sequencing
data to study human population histories. He has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with
Dr. K. Thangaraj at CSIRCCMB, Hyderabad. He has been a visiting research fellow
at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has received Young Investigator Award from “International
Society of Applied Biology”, Croatia, 2015. He has also received Venkatchalla
Gold Medal Award for the Year 2019, Young Scientist Award in “36th Annual
Conference of the Indian Society of Human Genetics” at Manipal University,
Manipal, India, 2011 and UKIERI visiting fellowship award and spent 11 Months
at University of Cambridge, UK (2007-2008). He has qualified GATE, CSIR-NET
and AICEE-JNU. He has supervised 22 post graduate students, and six Ph.D.
Students from Institutes in Pune, Chicago, Sri Lanka and Lucknow. He has
organised an International workshop on An Integrative Platform for Research on
the Reconstruction of the Past in India. He has delivered numerous talks about
his work and expertise at various conferences and events. He has more than 30
researches authored and co-authored and published in journals of national as
well as international repute.