Dr. Shambhu Kumar is the recipient of Fast Track Young Scientist award by SERB-DST, Govt. of India and has participated and presented papers in several international and national symposia/conferences and acquired many national trainings/workshops related to biodiversity, bioinformatics and molecular taxonomy. He is an editorial member of the 13 international journals in Agricultural Science, Environment, Applied Mycology, Fungal Genomics, Microbiology, and Biodiversity & Plant Pathology. He is also a potential reviewer of more than 10 international journals.