About me

I am a microbial ecologist and computational biologist, currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia (UWA), as part of the Soil Science Challenge. My research focuses on understanding how soil organic amendments (e.g., biochar, compost, digestate-based products) improve soil and plant health, with particular emphasis on the microbial and mechanistic pathways underpinning stress mitigation.

I completed my PhD at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia, where my doctoral research explored the drivers and mechanisms of plant microbiome assembly. My work integrated microbial ecology, plant biology, and computational approaches to investigate how plants interact with and shape their associated microbiomes.

My broader research interests include:

• Plant–microbiome interactions

• Soil and rhizosphere microbiome ecology

• Microbiome-mediated stress tolerance in plants

• Functional and taxonomic profiling of microbial communities

• Integrating microbial ecology with plant physiological and molecular responses

I am always keen to engage in collaborative research across disciplines and institutions.

📧 Contact: pankaj.singh@uwa.edu.au

Research Profiles

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YWMtjQEAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankaj-kumar-singh-9b891965/

• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pankaj-Singh-29

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