Biofuels and Bioproducts from Lignocellulosic Materials

Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as Senior Researcher at Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et BiologieAppliquée, CARAH ASBL and Laboratoire de “Chimieverte et ProduitsBiobasés”, at HPEH-Condorcet, Belgium. Dr. Sharma has more than 11 years of extensive teaching and research experience in food technology, nanoencapsulation, development of functional foods using micro/nano-colloidal delivery systems, food waste valorization for valuable plant-bioactive nutrients, and the development of vegan alternatives to replace the meat-based additives from food chain. She is the editor of few international journals including, Scientific Reports (Nature), Nanofabrication, Biomaterials and Polymers Horizon, Medicinal Plants - International Journal of Phytomedicines and Related Industries; Microbial Biosystems; and EUREKA: Life Sciences. She has also experience as guest editor in special issues of reputed journals include, International Journal of Food Microbiology, Biotechnology Reports, Biomolecules, Frontiers in Nutrition, Bioengineering, Gels, Agronomy etc. Prof Vivek obtained his B.E. degree (1988-92) in Pulp & Paper Engineering, and M.E. degree (1992-94) in Chemical Engineering with specialization in Industrial Pollution Abatement. He completed his Ph.D. in 2000 from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow, IWT, Applied Science University, Wolfenbuttel, Germany from 2000-01. He has been involved in teaching and research in IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi since 2004. He was a Visiting Research Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada from 2014/6-2014/7. He has been the recipient of many awards and honors including SRF Grant awarded from Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute for a proposal entitled ‘Novel Treatment Technology for High Salinity Water Using Membrane Distillation. He was elected International Director of Bio-Forest Product Division of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) for three years from 2014-2017. Meisam Tabatabaei is a Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. Over the last decade, Meisam has worked closely with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to promote waste-oriented biofuels in the developing world. Since 2016, he has been the lead collaborator of the Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK). He has published over 400 publications, including original research papers and reviews in journals such as The LANCET, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Nature Food, Trends in Biotechnology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He is currently also a Visiting Professor at the Henan Agricultural University, China, and University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a member of the editorial board for the journals Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Biofuel Research Journal, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Data in Brief, and Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects. Prof. Tabatabaei is the Associate Editor of Critical Reviews in Biotechnology and Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and Senior Editor of e-Prime. Meisam is listed on the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List (Top 0.1% of scientists in the world) in the Engineering Category, and is a member of the Clarivate Malaysia Hall of Fame. Dr. Manikant Tripathi is an Assistant Professor in the Biotechnology Program at Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya, in India. His primary research interest is to explore different efficient strategies toward bioremediation of environmental pollutants and microbial applications for value added product development. His current research work focused on microbial biotechnology, valorization of food wastes into value added products, green synthesis of nanoparticles and their antimicrobial activities, environmental pollution abatements, antimicrobial activities of plant based novel food materials. His research findings have been published in different peer-reviewed journals, and he is the recipient of many awards, including Best Poster Award, Young Scientist Award, Best Oral Presentation Award, and Excellence in Research Award for contribution in the field of Microbiology. He is also Editorial Board Member of many International Journals. His thrust research area includes microbial technology, industrial microbiology, environmental microbiology, nanobiotechnology, bioprospection of novel biomolecules, bioremediation. Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta holds a doctoral degree in Microbiology from Dr RML Avadh University, India. Currently, he is working at Center for Safe and Improved Foods & Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Center, SRUC, Edinburgh, UK. Dr Gupta is an expert in Biomass Valorisation, Microbial Engineering Biotechnologies, Bioactive Natural Products, and Functional Microbiome. He has 232 peer-reviewed publications, 43 book chapters and 39 books with total citations 16500 (Google Scholar) in his hands. Also, he is the editor of good few reputed journals including, Biotechnology Advances, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Microbial Cell Factories, STOTEN, Microbiome, and SREP.