Dr. Bhagwan Narayan Rekadwad conferred a PhD for his research on "the prokaryotic diversity of hot springs" in 2014. After his postdoc at DBT-NCCS, Pune, he joined "the Oxford of the East", the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, as an Assistant Professor. He currently serves as an Associate Professor, Yenepoya Research Centre, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, India. Dr. Bhagwan also serves as an expert on international and national grant panels. In the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, he was thrice ranked on the AD World Scientific Ranking. He is an expert in genome based Microbial Systematics, Evolutionary Microbiology, Sequencing, and Bioinformatics.