Dr. Hirak Ranjan Dash is an Assistant Professor of Forensic Biotechnology at the National Forensic Sciences University, Delhi Campus, India. Before joining academics, he worked as a Forensic DNA expert at Forensic Science Laboratory, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has examined more than 1000 cases using the DNA Profiling technique. His research interests include DNA Profiling, Microbial Forensics, and Next Generation Sequencing.
He has published 55 research articles in various peer-reviewed journals. He has written 12 books in various fields of Biotechnology. He is a life member of the International Society for Forensic Genetics, the Association of Microbiologists of India, and the Asian Federation of Biotechnology. He is the pioneer researcher from India on NGS-based Forensic DNA analysis. He is featured in the list of the top 2% scientists of in the world for 2021, 2022 and 2023.