Suneel Kateriya, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Opto-biotechnology, optogenetics, cilia biology, ciliopathies and channelopathies.

Prof. Suneel Kateriya

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Prof. Suneel
Kateriya

Professor · School of BiotechnologyJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Prof. Kateriya works on opto-biotechnology, optogenetics, cilia biology, ciliopathies and channelopathies. He joined JNU in 2015 after eight years at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus. Before that he was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, New York, and at Humboldt University, Berlin, after his Ph.D. at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

In 2001, during his doctoral work with Prof. Peter Hegemann, he identified the gene sequences later shown to encode channelrhodopsin-1 and channelrhodopsin-2, and he is a co-author of both founding papers. Read our history.

88Publications, chapters & preprints

2002Channelrhodopsin-1 in Science

23Funded research projects

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02 / Curriculum vitae

Career, service
and recognition.

Academic positions, administrative roles at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and awards and fellowships.

Career

2018–: Professor, School of Biotechnology, JNU
2015–2018: Associate Professor, School of Biotechnology, JNU
2007–2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus
2005–2007: Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University, New York, USA
2005: Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
2005: Ph.D., Institute for Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany

Roles at JNU

2025–: Controller of Examinations
2024–: Director of Admissions
2023–: Coordinator, Ayurveda Biology
2022–2025: Chairperson, Intellectual Property Management Cell
2021–2023: Dean, School of Biotechnology
2019–2021: Director, Research and Development
2017–2019: Deputy Director, Research and Development
2018–2025: Warden, Damodar Hostel

Awards and fellowships

2019, 2017: Max Planck Alumni Travel Award
2016: Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA), Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
2016: EMBO Travel Award (ICRP)
2012–2016: Max Planck Visiting Fellowship
2011: Young Scientist Award, Association of Microbiologists of India
2010: Ratna Phadke Young Scientist Award, Indian Biophysical Society
2009: Young Scientist Award, Indian Science Congress

Reviewer for Frontiers journals, Gene, BBRC, New Phytologist, PLoS One, Indian Journal of Microbiology, Journal of Applied Phycology, 3 Biotech and others.

Discipline: Opto-Biotechnology, Optogenetics, Cilia Biology, Ciliopathies & Channelopathies.

Research projects and funding

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