Dr. Pratibha R. Deep works as an Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, at the Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bolangir Campus, Odisha India. She has received her M.Sc. (Botany) from Gangadhar Meher College (presently University), Sambalpur, India. She qualified GATE twice 2007 and 2012. She did her MTech in Applied Botany from IIT Kharagpur, India. She joined and worked as Junior Research Fellow for two year and senior research fellow for one year in a UGC Project undergoing at School of Life science Sambalpur University from 2010-2013. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Science, in 2017, from Sambalpur University. She has published many research papers in national and international journals. She has undergone workshop and training programme in ICAR-CCUBGA, Pusa, New Delhi in cyanobacteria. She has awarded Deepesh and Mira De endowment prize for the best project done on living organism during MTech, at IIT kharagpur. She has attended and presented her research papers in many national and international seminars.