Dr. Kitherian Sahayaraj
Professor
St. Xavier’s College of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
India
Biography
Kitherian Sahayaraj, Ph.D., D.Sc., is an Professor (Associate) and Head at the Department of Zoology, St. Xavier’s College of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and a Director in the Crop Protection Research Centre in the same institution since the June 1998. Sahayaraj Kitherian received his undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral educations at the Madurai Kamaraj University, India. Over the past 31 years, Dr. Sahayaraj’s research efforts have been dedicated to multidisciplinary, integrated approaches to understanding how reduviids distribute and diversify in various ecosystems, and how their adaptive characters can be applied to pest management, especially through biointensive pest management. Dr. Sahayaraj has over 210 scientific papers published. He is an internationally recognized expert in many areas of advanced entomology including insect chemical ecology, artificial diet formulation, biopesticide formulation, biointensitve integrated pest management, bionanomaterial, and insect molecular biology. He is a regularly sought after and requested lecturer at the majority of science colleges at Tamil Nadu, India. Dr. Sahayaraj organized four international conferences (BIOCICON) and seven more national conferences. Dr. Sahayaraj is the Editor–in-Chief of the Journal of Biopesticides and also Editor for more than 10 reputed peer-reviewed journals. Reviewer of more than 15 journals, particularly Entomotropica, journal of Insects, Pest Management Sciences, Pesticide Biochemistry and Phytochemistry, Photobiology B: Biology etc. Recent publications of Dr. Sahayaraj deals with essential oils, seaweeds, reduviid predators, fungi for pest management; culture, bioefficacy and venom biochemistry of reduviid predators; bionanomaterial synthesis, characterization and biological application. He has been honored with several awards from regional, national and international agencies. Dr. Sahayaraj has operated thirteen research projects funded by DST, DBT, CSIR, MOEs, MEFs and IFS. He has also received grants on several occasions for conducting farmers’ and students’ training programmes and international conference on Biopesticides and international travel grant from TWAS, CSIR, DST, TNSCST, MES, ICMR, ICAR and UGC. He has guided and supervised 19 Ph.D. scholars and supervising four researchers. He has been regularly transferring the laboratory finding to the neighborhood farmers and offering guidance to them on BIPM. For a better understanding and pursuance by farmers, he brought out 05 manuals/books in his regional language.
Research Interest
Kitherian Sahayaraj, Ph.D., D.Sc., is an Professor (Associate) and Head at the Department of Zoology, St. Xavier’s College of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and a Director in the Crop Protection Research Centre in the same institution since the June 1998. Sahayaraj Kitherian received his undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral educations at the Madurai Kamaraj University, India. Over the past 31 years, Dr. Sahayaraj’s research efforts have been dedicated to multidisciplinary, integrated approaches to understanding how reduviids distribute and diversify in various ecosystems, and how their adaptive characters can be applied to pest management, especially through biointensive pest management. Dr. Sahayaraj has over 210 scientific papers published. He is an internationally recognized expert in many areas of advanced entomology including insect chemical ecology, artificial diet formulation, biopesticide formulation, biointensitve integrated pest management, bionanomaterial, and insect molecular biology. He is a regularly sought after and requested lecturer at the majority of science colleges at Tamil Nadu, India. Dr. Sahayaraj organized four international conferences (BIOCICON) and seven more national conferences. Dr. Sahayaraj is the Editor–in-Chief of the Journal of Biopesticides and also Editor for more than 10 reputed peer-reviewed journals. Reviewer of more than 15 journals, particularly Entomotropica, journal of Insects, Pest Management Sciences, Pesticide Biochemistry and Phytochemistry, Photobiology B: Biology etc. Recent publications of Dr. Sahayaraj deals with essential oils, seaweeds, reduviid predators, fungi for pest management; culture, bioefficacy and venom biochemistry of reduviid predators; bionanomaterial synthesis, characterization and biological application. He has been honored with several awards from regional, national and international agencies. Dr. Sahayaraj has operated thirteen research projects funded by DST, DBT, CSIR, MOEs, MEFs and IFS. He has also received grants on several occasions for conducting farmers’ and students’ training programmes and international conference on Biopesticides and international travel grant from TWAS, CSIR, DST, TNSCST, MES, ICMR, ICAR and UGC. He has guided and supervised 19 Ph.D. scholars and supervising four researchers. He has been regularly transferring the laboratory finding to the neighborhood farmers and offering guidance to them on BIPM. For a better understanding and pursuance by farmers, he brought out 05 manuals/books in his regional language.