Born on 5^th May 1969 in the village Shankarpura of District Gurdaspur, Dr Prabhjodh Singh Sandhu completed his M.Sc. (Plant Pathology) in the year 1994. Dr Sandhu joined PAU in February 1996 as Assistant Professor of Plant Protection at KVK, Kapurthala. He completed his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology in the year 2005 and joined Oilseed research group in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics.

Dr Sandhu has extensive experience in plant pathology research, extension, and education. He is currently managing 4 research projects and has completed 7 ad hoc research projects funded by various national and international funding agencies, including DST, DBT, ICAR, and BBSRC UK. He has identified the first source of resistance to the deadly Sclerotinia rot of rapeseed-mustard disease and has played a key role in phenotyping Brassica juncea introgression lines bearing genomic introgression from wild species. He has been involved in the release of white rust resistant canola mustard variety RLC3 and hybrid RCH1. o sources of white rust resistance have been registered with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Plant Germplasm Registration Committee (PGRC). Also, he has discovered Diplotaxis erucoides as a source of resistance to the pathogen Alternaria blight, which had no known sources of resistance up until this point. Also, Dr. Sandhu was involved in the evaluation and release of 18 different oilseed crop types, including sesame, groundnut, and rapeseed-mustard. He has developed 21 disease management technologies for various oilseed crops. Since 2005, Dr Sandhu has worked in a multidisciplinary team with strong collaborations with scientists in India and abroad. His research team was awarded ICAR-Best AICRP Centre Award for the year 2011-12 by ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed Mustard Research.

Dr Sandhu has 61 research publications to his credit in journals of national and international repute and 76 other research publications including abstracts, book chapters and bulletins besides 68 extension articles. He has delivered 41 TV/radio talks besides 115 lectures in various training progammes. He has guided 8 M.Sc. and 3 Ph.D. students. Dr Sandhu is the recipient of Australian Government’s Prestigious Endeavour Research Fellowship (Australia Awards) and worked at the University of Western Australia Perth in 2009. He is a widely travelled scientist and has presented his research work in various conferences at Germany, Canada, China, Czech Republic and France. He is a Fellow of the Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research in Bharatpur and the Indian Society of Oilseeds Research in Hyderabad. Besides research, teaching and extension, Dr Sandhu has also served the University as Security Officer for eight years. Currently he is also the President, Sports Committee of College of Agriculture, PAU, Ludhiana.