Shashi Kant Bhatia Editor

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Prof. Deepak Pant is currently Dean, School of Basic Sciences, Central University of Haryana, India. He is also a Visiting Professor of Environmental and Chemical Science, Indira Gandhi Technological and Medical Sciences University, India and Professor on lien, Department of Environmental Science, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India. Prof. Pant is the recipient of Silver Jubilee Research Fellowship award (2003) by Kumaun University, India, UCOST Young Scientist Award 2009, INSA visiting fellow 2010, DST-SERC visiting Fellow 2010, DST-SERC Young Scientist Award 2011 and Visitor award 2017 by Hon’ble President of India for his research activities. He was conferred the 8th National Award for Technology Innovation by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India. Prof. Pant has 5 patents in the area of waste management by green techniques and has authored 13 books, 50 research papers in various national and international journals. He has guided 6 Ph.D. scholars and 150 M.Sc. dissertations.

Dr. Anil Kumar Patel is a Research Professor in the Department of Nanobiotechnology at Korea University, Republic of Korea. His current research focus is carbon capturing and development of microalgal bioprocess using mixotrophic cultivation strategy for effective remediation of gaseous and aqueous industrial wastes and their biochemical conversion into astaxanthin as well as microbial lipids for biodiesel. He has been visiting researcher at the EPFL, Switzerland (2008) and had postdoctoral trainings in Bioprocess Engineering at the Institute Pascal, France (2009-2013), and University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States (2017). He also worked as research professor at HKBU University, Hong Kong (2018) and as research team of Bioenergy project at Indian Oil Corp. Ltd, R&D center India for the development of lignocellulosic ethanol and zero waste technology (2013-2016). He has a current H-index 26 and over 3600 citations. He has over 82 publications, which include 4 patents, 40 original and review articles, 18 book chapters and 2 conference proceedings. He is the recipient of IBA-IFIBiop Young Scientist award at Lille, France in the year 2013 and DBT- Energy Bioscience Overseas Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (2013). He has delivered several invited lectures, chaired and coordinated scientific sessions and presented research papers in international conferences. 

Dr. Shashi Kant Bhatia is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Engineering, Konkuk University, South Korea. Dr. Bhatia has published more than 90 research/review articles on industrial biotechnology, bioenergy production, biomaterial, biotransformation, microbial fermentation, and enzyme technology in international scientific peer reviewed journals and holds four international patents. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Himachal Pradesh University, India. Dr. Bhatia has worked as a Brain Pool Post Doc Fellow at Konkuk University (2014-2016), South Korea. His research area includes conversion of biowastes into bioenergy, biochemicals and biomaterials. He is also an editorial board member of journals of national and international repute. 

Anand Giri is currently working as Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India. He pursued his M.Sc. in Environmental Science from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India and B.Sc. degree from Kumaun University Nainital, Uttarakhand in year of 2010. He was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy in the year of 2014 and Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR, Government of India in 2018. He has extensive experience in R&D management and consultancy in the field of Environmental Impact Assessment and Management.  He has published multiple research papers in national and international journals.