Dr. Amrita Poonia has 15 years of teaching and research experience. She has published more than 90 research and review papers, 36 book chapters, four books with Springer Nature, two laboratory manuals, 91 research and review papers, and more than 36 book chapters at National and International level. Dr. Poonia has conducted a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) under agMOOCs on Functional Foods: Concept, Technology and Health Benefits from 8 October, 2018 to 19 November, 2018, in which 4281 students successfully completed this course from all over the World. She was awarded with the Certificate of Appreciation for offering a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) under agMOOCs, by Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Canada. She has supervised 3 Ph.D scholars and 49 M.Sc/M.Tech students. Presently 3 scholars are perusing Ph.D under her supervision. She has received the appreciation letter from Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi for allotment of maximum research faculty incentive grant among all the faculty members of the Department of Dairy Science and Food Technology, under Institution of Eminence (IoE) during 2022 and 2024. Dr. Amrita Poonia has also received the Faculty Incentive Grant two times in row on the basis of her quality research and publications in Q1 and Q2 journals under the Institution of Eminence (IoE) scheme.

She has successfully completed a project on “Identification of Food borne pathogen (Listeria monocytogenes) in Shrikhand Using PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)” at BHU New Faculty Members XI- Plan Grant in 2012. She is Co-PI in project entitled” Morpho-Molecular characterization, and utilization of land races of finger millet (Eleusine coracana) germplasms” funded by UPCAR. She is a Life Member of Association of Food Scientists & Technologists, India and Indian Dairy Association.

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