He has been Visiting Professor/Scientist and UNESCO Professor in many countries, including France, Brazil, UK, Switzerland, Malaysia, Thailand, etc. Formerly, he was Eminent Scientist at the Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Mohali and Chief Scientist & Head of Biotechnology Division at CSIR’s National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology at Trivandrum. His major research and technological development interests are in industrial and environmental biotechnology, which span over biomass to fuels & chemicals, waste to wealth/energy, industrial enzymes, solid-state fermentation, etc.

Professor Pandey has ~ 1200 publications/communications, which include 16 patents, 54 books, 130 book chapters, 465 original and review papers, etc with h index of 84 and >29,000 citations (Goggle scholar). He has transferred several technologies to industries and has done industrial consultancy for about a dozen projects for Indian/international industries.

Professor Pandey is the recipient of many national and international awards and fellowships, which include Life-Time Achievement Award from the International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (2017); Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, UK (2016); Academician of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Germany (2016); Fellow of International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (2014); Fellow of National Academy of Science, India (2012); Fellow of Association of Microbiologists of India (2010); Fellow of International Organization of Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2008); Fellow of the Biotech Research Society, India (2005); Honorary Doctorate degree from Univesite Blaise Pascal, France (2007); Thomson Scientific India Citation Laureate Award, USA (2008); Lupin Visiting Fellowship, Best Scientific Work Achievement award, Govt of Cuba; UNESCO Professor; Raman Research Fellowship Award, CSIR; GBF, Germany and CNRS, France Fellowship; Young Scientist Award, etc.

Professor Pandey was Chairman of the International Society of Food, Agriculture and Environment, Finland (Food & Health) during 2003-2004. He is Founder President of the Biotech Research Society, India; International Coordinator of International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses, France, Chairman of the International Society for Energy, Environment & Sustainability and Vice-President of All India Biotech Association.

Prof Pandey is Editor-in-chief of Bioresource Technology, Honorary Executive Advisors of Journal of Water Sustainability and Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Subject editor of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (India) and editorial board member of several international and Indian journals. He is editor-in-chief of a book series on Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, comprising twelve volumes published by Elsevier and another series on Biomass, Biofuels and Biochemicals, comprising six volumes.

He has 1 book (published by Springer), 1 Patent, 76 peer-reviewed publications with >4380 citations (h-index 35) and 20 book chapters to his credit. He is a member of several scientific communities including ISMET, ISE, BES, BRSI, IFIBiop and AMI. He serves as Editorial board member for the Journals: ‘Bioresource Technology’, ‘Electronic Journal of Biotechnology’, ‘Biofuel Research Journal’, ‘Heliyon’ and ‘Frontiers in Environmental Science’. He served on the scientific committee for 5^th MFC conference (ISMET 5, Arizona, 2015) and EU-ISEMT 2016 (Rome). He also organized a symposium on “Electrochemistry, Photo-Electrochemistry and Bioelectrochemistry of Artificial Photosynthesis” at the annual meeting of International Society for Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2016, The Hague, Netherlands. He collaborates with researchers all over the globe and count over 109 co-authors spread across 30 institutions/universities. Currently, he is supervising one PhD student on microbial electro-synthesis and previously supervised 2 PhD student on microbial fuel cells. He was a promoter for two Marie Curie Post-docs on Microbial and Enzymatic Electro-synthesis on conversion of CO₂to value-added chemicals. He also contributes to scientific reviewing activities and reviews proposals for European Commission (Horizon 2020) and national funding programs of Spain, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Germany and India. He is also a member of the EPSRC expert college.

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(a) PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

University of Copenhagen, Denmark   - Biology   -   M.Sc. 1982

University of Copenhagen, Denmark   -   Microbiology -   Ph.D. 1986

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)  -   Microbiology   -   Postdoc 1987-1988

(b) APPOINTMENTS:

2011-2013            Head EMSL research Campaign: Studying pathway for isoprene production in Bacillus subiilis

2010-    Chairman of Board, CleanVantage LLC (www.cleanvantage.com), Richland, WA

2010-    Wiley Research Fellow, EMSL& PNNL

2008-     Battelle Distinguished Professor, Washington State University, Richland, WA

2008-2015            Director and Battelle Distinguished Professor Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Laboratory

2006-2008            Head of the Maxifuel Pilot Plant for Cellulosic Ethanol, DTU, Denmark

2006-2010            CEO BioGasol Aps (www.biogasol.com), Copenhagen, Denmark

2005-    Minister-appointed Board Member Energinet.dk (www.energinet.dk)

2002-2008            Head of BST (BioScience and Technology) with 62 researchers working within “Biofuels and Biochemicals” or “Biomedical Research”

2005-2008            Head of Danish Center for Biofuels with researchers from 4 universities and 5 industries (60 researchers)

1999-2008            Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, making up BioCentrum and later DTU System Biology

1997-2002            Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

1994-1998            Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Technical University of Denmark

1991-1994            Head of the Nordic Ministerial Council's Center for Bioenergy and Environment, Department of Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark

1992-1995            Specialist for UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank with work periods in Tanzania, Morocco, Tunisia, Uganda, India, China, Malaysia and Indonesia

1992-1997            Research Director (part time), Danish Technology Institute

1986-1990            Program Director for The Nordic Ministerial Council's Program for Bioenergy Dept. of Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark heading Bioenergy groups in 4 countries

(c) Publications (out of 442 publications of which 367 is peer-reviewed research papers, H-factor 52)

Five Most Related Publications:

• Srinivas, K., Oliveira, F.C., Teller, P.J., Gonsalves, A.R., Ahring, B.K. 2016. Oxidative degradation of biorefinery lignin obtained after pretreatment of forest residues of Douglas fir, Bioresource Technology, 221, 394-404.
• Biswas, R., Teller, P.J., Ahring, B.K. 2015. Pretreatment of forest residues of Douglas fir by wet explosion for enhanced enzymatic saccharification, Bioresource Technology, 192, 46-53.
• Rana, D., Laskar, D.D., Srinivas, K., Ahring, B.K. 2015, Wet explosion pretreatment of loblolly pine leads to an increase in methoxylation of the lignin, Bioresources and Bioprocessing, 2, 1-10.
• Ahring B.K., Biswas R, Ahamed A, Teller P.J., Uellendahl H. 2015. Making lignin accessible for anaerobic digestion by wet-explosion pretreatment. Bioresource Technology, 175,182-188.
• Boaro, A.A., Kim, Y.M., Konopka, A.E., Callister, S.J., Ahring, B.K. 2014. Integrated omics analysis for studying the microbial community response to a pH perturbation of a cellulose-degrading bioreactor culture. FEMS microbiology ecology, 90, 802-815.

Five Other Significant Products:

• Murali, N., Srinivas, K., Ahring, B.K. 2017. Biochemical production and separation of carboxylic acids for biorefinery applications, Fermentation, 3, 22.
• Biswas, R., Teller, P.J. Ahring, B.K. 2015. Pretreatment of forest residues of Douglas fir by wet explosion for enhanced enzymatic saccharification, Bioresource Technology, 192, 46-53.
• Biswas, R, Uellendahl, H, Ahring, B.K. 2015. Wet exlposion: a universal and efficient pretreatment process for lignocellulosic biorefineries. BioEnergy Res. 8, 1101-1116.
• Njoku, S.I., Ahring, B.K., Uellendahl, H. 2013. Tailoring Wet Explosion Process Parameters for the Pretreatment of Cocksfoot Grass for High Sugar Yields. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, PMID: 23709291.
• Isern, N.G., Xue, J., Rao, J.V., Cort, J.R., Ahring, B.K. 2013. Novel monosaccharide fermentation products in Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus identified using NMR spectroscopy. Biotechnology & Biofuels, 6, 47, doi: 10.1186/1754-6834-6-47.

(d) SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES:

• Organizer, keynote speaker and invited speaker at more than 85 international meetings.
• Established a Graduate Program in Bioproducts and Biofuels started at WSU Fall 2010.
• Extended experiences in research management as Center Leader, Project Coordinator and Project Leader of National and International Programs and head of many EU projects in biofuels and biochemicals.
• Winner of a research campaign grant at EMSL (Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, DOE Facility), 2011 and appointed as Wiley Research fellow at EMSL, Jan 2011, Jan 2012 and Jan 2013. Further, multiple awards including the Kann Rasmussen Award for Excellent Technical Research 1999 $250,000 and the Washington State’s STAR Researcher Award of $1.6 million in 2008.
• Filed 11 patents, several world patents and 6 are in active use within the biofuels & bioproducts  area, further editor of several books: The Biomethanation, Books I and II from 2003 in Advancement in Biochem.Eng./Biotech have been printed in several editions; translated into Chinese in 2012

Focus in microbiology and processes technology; process optimization; molecular methods for characterization of bacteria; pretreatment of biomass; microalgae; macroalgae; microbial electrochemistry; and biorefineries.

Full biography coming soon.

In addition, he also wrote and published a book entitled “Anaerobic Biotechnology for Bioenergy Production: Principles and Applications” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). Recently he also published a bioenergy textbook entitled Bioenergy: Principles and Applications (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). Dr. Khanal is also an editorial board member of Bioresource Technology and Korean Journal of Environmental Engineering. He is also a recipient of CTAHR Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (2016), University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Website: https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/depart/mbbe/Khanal.html

He has strong research skills and expertise in the area of applied microbiology and biochemical engineering. He is author of about 220 documents, including 114 articles, three patents, 15 book chapters and 24 co-editions of books or journal special issues. He is member of French Society for Process Engineering (SFGP), of the French Society of Biotechnology and of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He is administrator of IBA-IFIBiop and editor of Bioresource Technology.

Prof. Lee has authored one book, nine book chapters, 12 review papers, five patents, 600 research papers, etc. He has been a recipient of Outstanding Fellow award from National Science Council, Taiwan (2009), Chang-Kang Scholaraward (2007), Scientific Chair Professor award of YZH Foundation (2012), etc and is Associate Editor of Bioresource Technology.

His group employs a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches using control theory, systems biology, process modeling, economic analysis and life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques to conduct molecular, cellular, industrial scale and systems level analyses of technologies to establish a sustainable bioeconomy. Recently, Murthy group has been trying to understand the nutrient-energy-water nexus at regional and global scale with particular focus on building resilience of agro-ecological systems to pulse and pressure disturbances.

He is also serving as Council Member of the International Bioprocessing Association, Managing Committee Member of IWA Working Group on Alternative Water Resources (China), Co-Director of Collaborative Membrane Bioreactor Centre, Vice Chairman, Academic Committee of the International Science & Technology Cooperation Centre for Urban Alternative Water Resources Development while being Honorary Guest/Adjunct Professor of a number of Universities in China and other countries. Prof Ngo’s expertise covers the areas of water and wastewater quality monitoring and management, water and wastewater treatment technology assessment, desalination, and solid waste management. Currently, his activities more focuses in the development of specific green technologies: water - waste - bioenergy nexus and greenhouse gas emission control. Ngo has published more than 450 technical papers (Google citations > 6700 Goodge with  h Index = 43) including more than 300 SCI journal papers, over 100 conference papers, four books, 28 book chapters and a number of patents while receiving several highly recognized honours/awards. He is Editor of Bioresource Technology; he is also a founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Water Sustainability while being editorial board member of numerous international journals such as Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring and Management, and Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability.

Dr. Singhania obtained PhD in Biotechnology from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India. She has worked at CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, India; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Her major research interest is in the areas of microbial and enzyme technologies, with current focus on biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass. She has 83 publications, with >3900 citations and h-index of 24 (Google scholar). She is the recipient of Elsevier Best Paper award in 2007, AU-CBT Excellence award of BRSI in 2008 and IFIBiop Young Scientist award in 2013. She has been conferred Best Reviewer certificate from Bioresource Technology journal for two years and has served as guest editor of Renewable Energy journal for a special issue. She is editorial board member of Biofuel Research Journal. She has received Bioresource Technology, Elsevier Most Cited Paper award for the year 2015 and is Editor of Elsevier Bioresource Technology Reports journal.

Full biography coming soon.