Dr Kiran Bains joined PAU as Assistant Scientist, Food and Nutrition on 1.12.1995. She was Head of the Department of Food and Nutrition from 1.2.2019 to 31.1.2023 and joined as Dean, College of Community Science, PAU on 6.11.2023. She has guided 25 M.Sc. and 10 Ph.D. students and handled 12 adhoc research projects. She has 243 publications out of which 104 are Research Papers in peer reviewed journals and 28 research papers have been published in high impact rating journals (7.35-17.21). She was a member of Broad Subject Matter Area Committee (BSMAC) for Community Science of ICAR to restructure postgraduate curriculum in Community Science from 2018-20. She worked at Centre of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali as Sabbatical Faculty for one year (2015-16). She is Principal Investigator of Nestle India Limited funded ongoing scheme under first MoU of public-private partnership between PAU and Nestle India Limited in March 2009. This partnership completed 14 years, imparting nutrition education to 19,550 rural school girls from 77 villages of Moga, Ludhiana, Faridkot and Ferozepur districts with a total grant of Rs.1,03,83,000/- till date. As Principal Investigator, she achieved a competitive Research Project entitled, “A study of factors influencing zinc status of women (15-45 years) and children (6-59 months) from Ludhiana district of Punjab, India” in 2011 with a research grant of Rs.53,04,308/- from HarvestPlus, IFPRI, Washington DC. The study provided a baseline data for assessing the efficacy of biofortified high zinc varieties of HarvestPlus. She has been involved in testing of 7 crop varieties/ technologies in association with Agriculture and Horticulture scientists. She has been invited to present paper at 22^nd International Congress of Nutrition (ICN) organized by the International Union of Nutritional Science at Tokyo, Japan in 2022. She was also invited to present work on protein quality of Indian diets at Seminar on ‘Protein for Human Health’ funded by FAO and Health Canada held at Auckland, New Zealand from March 27 to 30, 2011. She was nominated by Government of India as a member of the team to attend Indo-New Zealand Workshop on ‘Food and Agriculture’ at Lincoln University, Christchurch and Massey University, New Zealand from June 20-24, 2012. She represented India at Nestle Switzerland, SA sponsored International Workshop to exchange best practices in nutrition awareness programmes participated by representatives of 35 countries at London, UK on May 26-27, 2010. She achieved Research Fellowships at World Vegetable Centre, Taiwan in 2003 and Massey University, New Zealand in 2007. Her research on ‘Traditional and Culturally Competent Emergency Food Aid’ has been selected as one of the 31 innovative solutions that have succeeded in addressing complex problems around food security and nutrition through MEGP Initiative jointly led by National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP). She has received 10 best paper awards at national conferences. She has been nominated as a Member Executive Committee of Nutrition Society of India, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad (2022-24) and Convener, Nutrition Society of India (Ludhiana Chapter) from 2020 to 2023. She has contributed in the development of ‘Regional adaptation and update of food item based dietary guidelines’ of National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) with emphasis on cardio-vascular diseases.