Background
Upreti, Dalip Kumar was born on January 26, 1958 in Pithoragarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Son of Kirpal Dutt and Saraswati Devi University.
Upreti, Dalip Kumar was born on January 26, 1958 in Pithoragarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Son of Kirpal Dutt and Saraswati Devi University.
After earning his Doctor of Philosophy, he worked as a Associate and in 1988, he joined Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Botanical Institute as Scientist-B and leading the Lichen Laboratory He has produced more than 35 Doctor of Philosophy students, his students have worked in all the aspects of lichens with 400 research articles
He is a chief scientist at the herbarium division of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-National Botanical Institute, Lucknow. He started his career in 1978 at Lucknow University supervised by Dharani Dhar Awasthi, Father of Indian Lichenology. During this tenure, he published more than 60 research articles (including book chapters).
He revised the lichen family Cladoniaceae during his doctoral degree.
He has described 98 novel species. He has revised the lichen families such as Pyrenulaceae, Graphidaceae, Teloschistaceae, Lecanoraceae, Parmeliaceae, Usneaceae, et cetera
Recently, Doctor Upreti received FNASc during the year 2013 for his notable service in the field of Lichenology. Pradeep Kumar Divakar is his first Doctor of Philosophy student, who is one of the world"s renowned Lichenologists.
Doctor.Upreti is serving as president of Indian Lichenological Society.
The Janaki Ammal National Award in Plant Taxonomy for the year 2015 was given to Doctor Dalip Kumar Upreti for his work over the last three decades, leading to the establishment of more than 100 new species of lichen to the world and more than 200 species as new records to the lichen flora of India. He has also received Professor Bashir Ahmad Razi Medal -2006) of Association for Plant Taxonomy (Advanced Package Tool).
There are 5 lichen species which are named after him in his honor.
Parmotrema upretii Divakar, Myelochroa upretii Divakar & Elix, Lecanora upretii Papong, Nayaka & Lumbsch, Graphis upretii South.Joshi & Hur, Heterodermia upretii Y.Joshi, South.Upadhyay & K.Chandra. Doctorate. K. P. K. K. K.
Treasurer Kaul Science Foundation, Lucknow, since 1996. Fellow Society Ethnobotanist. Member International Association Lichenology (life), British Lichen Society (correspondent).
Married Ira Tewari, May 10, 1986.