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Place of Birth: Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
About Vineet Soni
- Vineet Soni is a plant conservation biotechnologist and the founder of the "Save Guggul Movement", a community-based conservation effort to conserve threatened plant species, particularly guggul.
- His conservation efforts were well received by local villagers and conservation communities from all over the world.
- Soni was profiled as one of 20 global "Earth Movers" by IUCN.
- Initially his conservation work received financial support from the IUCN Sir Peter Scott Fund.Soni specializes in plant molecular biology, conservation biology, and photosynthesis research.
- He obtained his doctorate in India in 2005 and performed postdoctoral work at the University of Geneva in 2007.
- He has served as a visiting scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France.
- He is a member of three International Union for Conservation of Nature commissions: the Species Survival Commission, the World Commission for Protected Areas, and the Commission on Education and Communication.
- He is the elected fellow of many prestigious societies i.e.
- the Mendelian Society of India, Indian Botanical Society and Linnean Society of London.
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