Shifa Muneer
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, India
Biography
Shifa Muneer is a young, enthusiastic and an innovative researcher working in the field of agriculture and horticulture with focus on nano-pesticides; intrinsic toxicity of pesticides and different toxicological parameters. Shifa has not only been a gold medallist in Bachelors in Agriculture, but also in Masters in Agriculture and has also been declared as the University topper amongst all the faculties of the university. Shifa is an awardee of the very prestigious INSPIRE fellowship, Department of Science and Technology (DST), India and has also been selected under the Nano-mission school sponsored by DST. Shifa has researched in collaboration with Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, India for synthesis of nano-formulations of pesticides. She strives to work towards synthesizing nano-pesticides and also testing and evaluating them. Her work is very imperative to the pesticide companies, different universities and is a breakthrough in the field of plant protection.