Rishikesh Bhalerao

Biography

Rishikesh Bhalerao received his Ph. D in 1993 from Umea University. Following his Ph. D, he did his Post-doc with Csaba Koncz at the Max-Planck Institute in Cologne. He returned to Sweden in 1997 and started his own research group shortly afterwards at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Rishi is a full professor at SLU and the major focus of his work is understanding how seasonal cues such photoperiod and temperature control annual growth cycle of trees using hybrid aspen as a model. Rishi was elected as EMBO member in 2023 and as Wallenberg scholar in 2024.