The Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT) was established in September 2004. AIMT aims at excellence in performance, committed to providing quality educational opportunities and services that meet or exceed the needs of learners, industry/business and our community. AIMT is now supported by Department of Science & Technology (DST) under Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (DST-FIST) to rebuild the Science & Technology infrastructure in the country.

• State of art facilities: AIMT has most modern infrastructural facilities including two practical labs fully devoted for teaching M.Sc students, two research labs for carrying out the research projects and specialized labs for plant tissue culture, greenhouse, controlled environment plant/ microbes growth chambers, biochemical analysis, cryo facility and facilities to carry out molecular studies etc. Apart from routine basic equipment needed for teaching and research, the labs are equipped with state-of-the art instruments like HPLC, GLC, RT-PCR, TGGE, Gel Documentation System. ELISA Plate Reader, Fluorescent Microscope, Phase Contrast Microscope, Refrigerated Centrifuge, Plant Tissue Culture Room, Zeta Potential Analyzer, Green House, Microbial Culture room, Laminar flow cabinets, Ice flakes machine, Deep Freezer – 20°, - 40° and - 80°, Lyophilizer, UV-VS Spectrometer, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Electronic Beam Evaporator (for thin film growth), Thermal Evaporator, Electroporator, Transilluminator, Confocal Microscope (Under DST – FIST Scheme I)
• Modern research: Apart from M.Sc./M.Phil. degree courses, AIMT enrolls Ph.D & D.Sc. students and is undertaking research in a wide range of specializations including plant microbe interaction for improving the value of medicinal plants, medicinal mushroom as nutraceutical, micro-nutrient management and crop quality improvement specially oil seed brassica. The institute is presently running 11 research projects, sponsored by Indian government funding agencies like DBT, DRDO, DST, ICAR, MoEF etc.
• Scope: Quality control & hygiene in Hotels, food testing labs & catering industry, pharmaceutical companies, distilleries, clinical diagnostic labs, corporate and government sector R&D labs. Students can also pursue higher studies in India and abroad.

 

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Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan,
Chairman, AKC Group of Companies &
Founder President, Amity Universities and Institutions

An unassuming man Dr. Ashok K Chauhan has many titles on him. The most successful NRI of continental Europe -1992, the 'Man of the Year' London-1992, the chancellor of Gurukul Mahavidyalaya, Jwalapur, the 'International Man of the year, 97-98 by International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England. The Barter King, The Man with the Midas Touch, the list is endless.

But those who know him closely describe him as an entrepreneur, an educationist, a philanthropist and a humble human being all rolled into one.

Dr. Chauhan's success story started when he left for Germany in 1966. Armed with M.Sc. Chemistry, he pursued higher studies in Chemical Engineering and Plastic Technology in the then West Germany. From there he moved on to become the head of the renowned European Group, Daetiafler. The only such highly placed Asian in West Germany at that time. He then founded the AKC Group of Companies that soon went on to become a global industrial empire.

Dr. Chauhan also has the distinction of being the NRI Member of four select committees set up respectively by the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. It was due to his many contributions that President Zail Singh honoured him with the "NRI of the Year Award" for contributing the most in providing technology inputs in India.

Furthermore, Dr. Chauhan was recognised as the biggest Non-German Investor by the German government during the unification of Germany in 1993, when he acquired eight big factories with a work force of 6,000 Germans.

A recipient of dozens of national and international awards, Dr. Chauhan is the Founder President of the Ritnand Balved Education Foundation, which is the umbrella body of 35 Amity schools and institutions of higher education in addition to India's first private university - Amity Information Technology University. He is also the Chancellor for the Amity University. There are over 20,000 full-time students presently studying in various Amity institutions located in 12 campuses in India and overseas.

It is with his unparalleled vision and dynamic leadership that the Amity institutions have come to stand for excellence and quality within a short span of time. Dr. Chauhan nurtures the organisation with a unique character and a firm belief that an Indian possesses virtues, qualities and personal traits that are unmatched in the world. It is his strong conviction that India can reach its fulsome power, glory and potential which keeps him untiringly engaged in promotion of education even amidst worldwide engagements.

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Prof. Dr. Ajit Varma

Group Dy. Vice Chancellor
Distinguished Scientist & Professor of Eminence, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (Amity University Uttar Pradesh)
& Vice Chairman, Amity Science, Technology & Innovation Foundation
Chairman, Faculty Research Committee (FRC), Biosciences & Biotechnology
Amity Campus, Sector 125, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
E-mail: ajitvarma@amity.edu

Qualification: M.Sc. (1959), Ph. D. (1964), Allahabad University, Allahabad, India

Professional Experience

• Microbiologist (Assistant Professor) IARI, New Delhi 1963-1971
• Senior Microbiologist (Associate Professor) IARI, New Delhi 1971-1974
• Associate Professor, JNU, New Delhi 1975-1984
• Professor, JNU, New Delhi 1985-2004
• Distinguished Scientist & Professor of Eminence, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (Amity University), Noida (adjacent to Delhi); since September 2004
• Director, Rootonic Pvt Ltd Delhi (since 2012)
• Board of Directors, Prathista Industries Limited, Secunderabad (since 2013)

Visiting Professorship & Visiting Research Scientist

Technical University, Graz (Austria) University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen (Germany) Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany) Philipps University, Marburg (Germany) Technical University, Muenchen (Germany) Kingstan, Jamaica Max Planck Visiting Professorship (Germany) Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China)

HelmholtzZentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany) CSIC, Madrid (Spain) University of Dundee (Scotland) University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) ICGEB (Italy) Adjunct Professor, National Mandela University of Science & Tech (Tanzania)

Awards & Recognition:

• Commonwealth Fellowship (Australia)
• National Research Council (Canada)
• Alexander von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
• National Science Foundation (USA)
• Indo-Czechoslovakia Exchange Programme (Prague)
• DAAD Fellowship (Germany)
• Deutsches BMFT Programme, George-August University, Gottingen (Germany)
• RAISA Fellowship for Innovative Research in Biotechnology (Italy)
• Swiss Federal Research Fellowship (Switzerland)
• BP Koirala award (Nepal)
• DFG-INSA Fellowship (Indo-Germany)
• FAMI Award 2011 (India)
• Honorary Diploma, UMF, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2011)
• Life time achievement award, Bombay University (2011)
• Special felicitation for outstanding research in the field of microbiology, JNU (2012)
• Life time achievement award, Amravati University Maharashtra, presented by Former President, Dr. Pratibha Patil (2018)
• Mentor of Ms. Shubhangi Mahajan a recipient of BIRAC-SITARE Award 2020

Number of Ph.D. Degree awarded: 101

Number of D.Sc. Degree awarded: 1

Publications:

• Published over 409 research articles, which appeared in National and International, journals of repute and also several major review articles and chapters in books.
• Published 109 books in the area of Microbial Technology, published by Academic Press, London, CRC Press, Florida, USA, IDRC, Canada and Springer-Verlag, Germany.
• Nominated as Editor-in-Chief by Springer-Verlag (Germany & New York), the leading science-publishing house, to prepare volumes on Soil Biology
• Nominated as Editor-in-Chief by IK Internationals to make series of books on Microbial and Biotechnological Research.
• Academic Editor - ‘International Journal of Plant & Soil Science’

Memberships:

National Academy of Agriculture Sciences International Society of Symbiosis, Boston, USA Indian Science Congress Association Executive Council, Amity University Uttar Pradesh University Research Council, Amity University Uttar Pradesh

Academic Council, Amity University Rajasthan ASSOCHAM Knowledge Millennium Council ASSOCHAM Expert Committee on Agriculture and Food Processing ASSOCHAM Expert Committee on S&T and Innovation

• Prof Dr. Ajit Varma in World Ranking of top 2% Scientists 
  • Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918