Sachin A Mandavgane Editor

Dr. Sachin A. Mandavgane is a professor and head of the Chemical Engineering Department at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering and authored 125 publications having 3000 citations and has 10 patents in his name. He works on sustainability topics such as agro-waste utilization and life cycle assessment. He mentors six start-ups initiated by his scholars. Dr. Ipsita Chakravarty is Scientist at Merino Innovation Centre, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. She completed her PhD in Biochemical Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2018. Her project proposal was recommended under the DST Scheme for Young Scientists and Technologists in 2023.She has authored around 30 publications and has 2 patents in her name. Innovative technologies developed by her for agro-waste valorization have been adopted by industry and agro-based startups. Dr. Amit K. Jaiswal is a lecturer of food technology and industrial biotechnology in the School of Food Science and Environmental Health at Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin)—City Campus, Ireland. His research focuses on the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels, biomaterials, and biochemicals, with an emphasis on novel process development and techno-economic analysis. He is also working on novel food processing technologies for functional and nutritional ingredient extraction from natural resources. He is the author of more than 100 publications with an h index of 35 and over 4000 citations.