Afroz Alam

Afroz Alam was awarded JRF and SRF in ?All India Coordinated Project on Taxonomy of Bryophytes? (AICOPTAX) sponsored by the Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi at Bryology Unit, Department of Botany, University of Lucknow. Dr. Alam has collected over 3000 accessions of bryophytes during plant collection trips to different parts of the country, including some arduous and treacherous terrains of Nilgiri and Palni Hills of Southern Peninsula, Eastern and Western Himalayas and Rajasthan. Currently Dr. Alam is working as an Associate Professor, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali University, Rajasthan. He has guided several students for their Ph. D. and many of them are working in the field of Bryology.