Kiran Babu Uppuluri Editor

Dr. Ponnusami V. is presently working as Associate Dean in the School of Chemical & Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, India. He graduated from A. C. Tech., Anna University and did his doctoral research in SASTRA Deemed University, India. He has rich industrial &, academic experience. His research interests include domestic and industrial wastewater treatment, bioconversion of lignocellulose, and bioprocessing. His group is working on photocatalysis, production of renewable fuels and microbial polysaccharides. He had published over 50 research papers in international journals.

Dr. Kiran Babu Uppuluri was awarded his PhD from the Faculty of Chemical engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, in 2011, currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur. From the past seventeen years, he has been engaged with the development, modeling, optimization, and intensification of a bioprocess for various biochemicals like biofuels, therapeutic enzymes, and biopolymers. The primary focus is on the utilization of agricultural feedstocks for the production of biofuels. Different pretreatment and hydrolysis methods were tested; optimized and developed for the effective use of biomass as potential bioenergy feedstock. This also involves the continuous production of cellulolytic enzymes, biopolymers and fabrication of nano-cellulases, enzyme bioreactors. The formulated nano-cellulase bioreactors have been tested for their stability, efficiency, and repeatability for the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic material to produce biofuels. Besides research expertise, he is a teacher who handles fundamental theory and experimental courses in Biofuels Technology, Bioprocess Technology, Downstream processing and Bioprospecting, to graduates and masters at SASTRA Deemed University.

Dr. Rangabhashiyam S is currently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. He has received Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany, received National-Post Doctoral Fellowship from SERB-DST, India, selected as Young Scientist by DST, India for the BRICS Conclave held in Durban, South Africa and received Hiyoshi Young Leaf Award from Hiyoshi Ecological Services, Hiyoshi Corporation, Japan. His major research interests are bioremediation and wastewater treatment. He is Editorial Board Member in Scientific Reports, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Associate Editor in International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, IET Nanobiotechnology, Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, Academic Editor of Adsorption Science and Technology and Editorial Board of Scientific Reports. He has published more than 90 papers and also contributed several book chapters including editing books from Elsevier and Wiley. Listed in World's Top 2% Scientist published by Elsevier, Stanford.

Dr. Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant professor Department of Environmental Study, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctorate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. He was also selected as Young Scientist by DST, India for the BRICS Conclave held in Durban, South Africa. His research interests include waste management, wastewater treatment, water scarcity and global climate change. He has published more than 75 research/ review papers in international journals in the fields of waste and wastewater treatment / management. He has also edited more than 40 books with various international publishers.