Prakash Kumar Sarangi, PhD, is a Scientist with specialization in Microbiology at the Central Agricultural University in Imphal, India. Dr. Sarangi’s research is focused on bioprocess engineering, biochemicals, biomaterials and sustainable development. His expertise is in bioconversion of biomass into biofuels, biochemicals, and nutraceuticals, as well as environmental waste remediation. He has taken leading roles as the principal investigator in different R&D projects on biomass conversion and microbial biodegradation into value-added products. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in biochemical engineering, microbial biotechnology, downstream processing, food microbiology and molecular biology. He is serving as an editorial board member for many international journals, including PLOS One; 3 Biotech; and Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. He is also serving as guest editor of the journals Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery; Chemical Engineering and Technology; and Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. He has published more than 130 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored more than 75 book chapters. He has presented at many national and international conferences. He is associated with many scientific societies as a fellow member (Society for Applied Biotechnology) and life member (Biotech Research Society of India; Society for Biotechnologists of India; Association of Microbiologists of India; Indian Science Congress Association; Forum of Scientists, Engineers & Technologists; and International Association of Academicians and Researchers). He has published many books on the field of biomass conversion and value addition. Dr. Sarangi has a PhD degree in Microbial Biotechnology from the Ravenshaw University, India, and MTech degree from the Department of Agriculture and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.Akhilesh Kumar Singh, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi Central University (MGCU), Motihari, Bihar, India. Before joining MGCU, Dr. Singh worked in the faculty at the Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus, Lucknow, India. He has more than 16 years of teaching and multidisciplinary research experience in industrial biotechnology, environmental biotechnology, and nanobiotechnology at the university level. His research focuses on polyhydroxyalkanoate bioplastic production, metallic nanobiotechnology, nitric oxide signaling, and biofuel production. He has been credited with two international and one national patents, 22 research papers, 35 review articles in international journals of high repute, and more than 60 chapters in reputed books published by Springer, Wiley, CRC Press, Elsevier, and so on. He has edited the book titled Nanobiotechnology: Mitigation of Abiotic Stress in Plants (Springer). Dr. Singh has been on the editorial boards as well as the panels of reviewers of several reputed journals of Elsevier, Springer Nature, John Wiley & Sons, etc. Dr. Singh has supervised three PhD, one MTech, 19 MSc, and five BTech students. He holds a PhD in agricultural and food engineering and an MTech in agricultural biotechnology from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, with a master’s degree in biotechnology from another prestigious institute, i.e., IIT, Roorkee, India. He has qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Life Science conducted by IIT Kanpur on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, awarded him the prestigious Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-University Grants Commission (UGC) Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR-UGC JRF). In addition, Dr. Singh has also qualified the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR)-National Eligibility Test (NET), i.e., ICAR-NET in “Agricultural Biotechnology,” conducted by ICAR, India.Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, PhD, is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, GIT, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He focuses his research works on applied microbiology, industrial biotechnology, and also fermentative production synthesis. He has published 48 papers in international and national journals, 13 book chapters in international books, and five book chapters in national books, with several papers and book chapters currently in progress. He has also published two national-level books. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Applied Microbiology; Archives of Microbiology; PLOS One; and Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. He received his PhD degree in fermentation technology from IIT Bombay, Mumbai in 2009. Before this degree, he has completed his MSc in Microbiology and MTech in Biochemical Engineering (from IIT BHU, Varanasi, UP). After earning his PhD degree, he had a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.Brijesh Pandey, PhD, specializes in secondary metabolism and genetic engineering for regulatory manipulation of secondary metabolic pathways. He is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research focuses on metabolic regulation and assessment of therapeutic and industrial importance of secondary metabolites. He has more than three dozen international publications to his credit. He is a life member of the Indian Science Congress and the Association, Society of Biological Chemists (I) and a founding member of the Florafauna Science Foundation, aimed at enabling entrepreneurial villages. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience at the university level. He received his PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Lucknow in India.
