About the Author: Prof. Praveen Kumar Ramanujam, an undergraduate in chemical engineering and postgraduate in industrial biotechnology from Annamalai University, is working as Head of the Department in Department of Biotechnology, Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India. His area of research includes renewable energy from biomass and municipal waste. He chaired the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th International Conference on Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainable Technologies. He has organized various national-level symposiums and conferences and served on the scientific advisory committees of several national and international events. He visited EPFL, Switzerland, as a Visiting Researcher in the Bioenergy and Energy Planning Research Group from October to November 2018. He has visited multiple countries, including the USA, Australia, China, Switzerland, Italy, Hongkong and Bangladesh, to attend various conferences. He has chaired sessions and delivered invited talks in various national and international conferences. He has provisional registrations for four patents. He has published more than 65 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 17 book chapters and 7 edited books and delivered 12 invited lectures and presentations and 33 other presentations. He was invited as a resource person for 10 national and international forums. He is Life Member in various professional societies, including BRSI, IIChE, IBA-IFIBiop, BigFin, ISTE, and EWB India. He has served as Management Council Member in BRSI. He was awarded with the ISTE-Syed Sajid Ali National Award for outstanding research work in the field of Renewable Energy for the year 2017, award instituted by the Indian Society for Technical Education, and "Outstanding Young Investigator Award" for excellence in research and teaching in a rural setting, awarded by RAISE Rural.
Dr. Binod Parameswaran is currently working as Principal Scientist in the Microbial Processes and Technology Division of CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India. He obtained a Ph.D. in biotechnology from the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Later, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea, and later joined as Scientist at CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India. His areas of interest include sustainable bioprocesses, biomass to fuels and chemicals, biopolymers, and enzyme technology. He has more than 210 research publications with an h-index of 48. He has published five books and 80 book chapters. His name is listed in the world's top 2% scientists for the whole career as per the study by Stanford University and Elsevier BV. He has received several awards and fellowships, including the Young Scientist Award from International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses, France; Kerala State Young Scientist Award from Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment; Prof S B Chincholkar Memorial Award of the Biotech Research Society, India; Pandey Research Excellence Award from IBA; Elsevier Impactful Research Award; Elsevier Renewable Energy Best Paper Award; Visiting Fellowship, EPFL, Switzerland and Marie Curie Fellowship, among others. He is a Fellow of International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ISEES). He is an Editorial Board Member of Bioresource Technology, Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering, Bioengineered and Frontiers. He is a National Honorary Advisory Board Member of Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (CEES), India; Central Office Executive of the Biotech Research Society, India and Indian Coordinator of International Bioprocessing Association.
Dr. B. Bharathiraja is working as Head of the Department in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Vel Tech High Tech Dr.Rangarajan Dr.Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, India. He has more than 14 years of experience in teaching. His area of research includes biofuels from biomass and municipal waste. He has published more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, two books, and seven book chapters. He has served as the Chief Editor of International Journal of Bioprocess Technology and Polymer Sciences, the Editorial Board Member in various journals and the International Scientific Advisory Committee Member in the 2012 Asian Biohydrogen and Bioproducts Symposium (ABBS), conducted by Chongqing University between 9-12 November 2012 in Chongqing, China. He has visited various countries, including the USA, China, Bangladesh and Hong Kong, to attend international conferences. He has chaired sessions and delivered invited talks in various international conferences, including the conference on "Bioenergy, Environment & Sustainable Technologies (BEST)--2013, 2015 and 2017 Tiruvannamalai India". He is Life Member in various professional societies, such as BRSI, IIChE, BigFin, ISTE and EFB.
Dr. A. Magesh is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu, India, with more than 18 years of experience. He completed his bachelor's in chemical engineering, master's in industrial biotechnology, and Ph.D. from Annamalai University. His area of research includes biotechnology. He has chaired multiple sessions and delivered invited talks in various national and international conferences, including conferences in Malaysia. He has published more than 15 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is Life Member in several professional societies, including the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE). He has also organized an entrepreneurship program for students of science and engineering, funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi.