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National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute

Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India

C-127, PHASE-VIII, Industrial Area, SAS NAGAR,

Mohali-160071 (PUNJAB), India

DEANS: Three Posts – Direct Recruitment or Deputation

(Advt. No. NABI-5/2011)

The Department of Biotechnology, Government of India has established National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) in the „Knowledge City‟ at Mohali, Punjab. NABI offers state-of-art infrastructure in genomics, plant biotechnology, post-harvest quality, value addition to food, economic utilisation of bio resources and nutritional sciences. The institute comprises of three Centres of Excellence in the following areas of science and technology.

(a) Agriculture Biotechnology, with a focus on genomic approaches to enhance the quality of farm produce and food crops.

(b) Food Biotechnology with a focus on innovative processes and products to enhance the value of farm produce.

(c) Nutritional Biotechnology, for innovative approaches to health through nutrition.

The three Centres will nurture enduring partnership to develop designer plants, future foods and bioprocesses for societal good and competitive advantage to agri-food industry. They would provide innovation-driven leadership to agriculture, food and nutrition industry through plant variety development, custom bio-processing, value addition, quality assurance and global competitiveness for advancing food and health through sound science. To this end, DBT is establishing a bioprocess development institute (Bioprocessing Unit) on the same campus and, a Biotech Park. The cluster would aim at taking innovations to market place through catalysing start-up companies and giving custom solutions to enhance competitiveness of agri-food enterprise.

In order to achieve the above goals, NABI will nurture excellence in inter-disciplinary sciences and develop state-of-art training and teaching programmes for preparing human resource with expertise in high-end knowledge and technology at the interphase of agriculture, food and nutrition. NABI will work along with institutes in neighbourhood (nanoscience institute, business school, IISER, IIT, PU, IMTech etc.) and in networking with global Centres of excellence.

NABI invites applications and nominations for the positions of Deans in the three departments. The Deans will be responsible for the development of Centres for knowledge creation and high learning at NABI.

(i) Dean, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology

(ii) Dean, Department of Food Biotechnology

(iii) Dean, Department of Nutritional Biotechnology.

Essential Qualification: (a) PhD in plant molecular biology, food science & technology, nutritional science, biochemical or bioprocess engineering or related subject area, as applicable to establish the above three Centres. (b) At least 15 years of experience at a high position in a research / teaching institute / university / industry with published research of highest standards and / or technologies of established utility. (c) Outstanding credentials in scientific, academic and technological achievements.

Desirable: Three years experience as Head of R&D in a reputed Academic or Research Institute or Industry in agriculture, food or nutrition as appropriate to the three Centres. Demonstrated ability to create new knowledge in the area of expertise or translate

DEANS: Three Posts – Direct Recruitment or Deputation innovations to develop new processes or products. Ability to network with national and global institutes and industries.

Age limit and tenure of appointment: The applicant should not exceed 55 years of age on the last date for the receipt of applications (viz. 30th April, 2011). (NOTE: Age limit for candidates desirous to apply on deputation on foreign service terms is 60 years). In exceptional cases, relaxation of age can be allowed at discretion of the competent authority. The appointment will be on contract basis for a period of five years or till the age of 60, whichever earlier. The tenure is extendable after review, as per rules of the organisation.

Salary & Allowances: All three positions of the Deans are in PB-4 in the basic scale `.37400–67000 plus Grade Pay `..12000 with allowances, perks and IP related benefits as per governmental norms. The positions can be filled by direct recruitment or on deputation, as per norms. Emoluments at minimum of the scale will be about `.93000/- per month.

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About NABI

National Agri - Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) is an autonomous institute of the Department of biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, located in the Knowledge City at Mohali, Punjab. The institute aims at catalysing the transformation of agri - food sector in India.

To be a nodal organization for knowledge generation and translational science leading to value added products based on agri- food biotech innovations.

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