Photocatalytic Degradation of Dyes

Dr. Sushma Dave received Master of Science and PHD in Analytical, Electrochemistry and Environmental Chemistry from Biosensor Lab in Chemistry Department of Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur. She is involved continuously in the field of higher education teaching pure, applied chemistry, cheminformatics, nanotechnology, electrochemistry, biology, solid waste management, wastewater treatment and environmental chemistry to students of Engineering and basic sciences. She also served as Research Associate in Soil Biochemistry and Microbiology Division CAZRI, Jodhpur. She has published and presented over 50 papers in international and national journals, conferences and participated in various workshops and training programs. Her areas of interest are electrochemistry, biosensors environmental science, nanotechnology, biochemistry, cheminformatics, immunoinformatics, and drug repurposing.

Dr. Das received his PhD in Biotechnology and served as a Scientist at IBSD, DBT, and Government of India. He is founder and CEO of Valnizen which deals with regulatory documents and healthcare compliances and support services to African and southeast Asian countries. He has served as Joint Director to Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission, DST, and Joint Director to Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre, DST, both from Government of Gujarat. He has served as Director, Savli Technology Business Incubator, DST, Government of Gujarat, India. He was actively involved in development and implementation of various policies and action plans like Biotechnology policy, Innovation policy, Interpole disaster management policy, start-up policy for many Universities and Government. His research team is involved in addressing societal challenges via cutting-edge research viz. development of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, development of universal vaccine candidate for emerging diseases, development of miRNA based targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence in healthcare applications.

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is Chief Scientist and Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. His work focuses on the impact of industrial pollution on the microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification, and genetically engineering high-impact microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. His research interests include biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewaters.