Dr. Deepesh Bhatt is working as an assistant professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Shree Ramkrishna Institute of Computer Education and Applied Sciences, Sarvajanik University, Surat, Gujarat, India. Earlier he worked as an associate research scientist at the Department of Research and Development, Mahyco Ltd. He has previously served as a postdoctoral research associate at the National Institute of Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi. His core area of research includes plant stress physiology, molecular cloning, and functional validation of stress-induced genes and their promoters. His other domain of work entails making use of nanotechnology in altering secondary metabolites in plants. He has published more than 33 research and review articles and chapters in reputed international journals. He has edited a book published by Springer Nature. He is a lifetime member of the Association of Microbiology of India and was awarded the Young Scientist by the Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology.