and edited or authored several books. He has twelve
years of teaching experience and has been awarded the
Young Scientist Award and Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi
Gold Medal by the International Society for Ecological
Communications; FSAB fellowship by the Society for
Applied Biotechnology; the American Cancer Society
UICC International Fellowship for Beginning
Investigators, USA; Outstanding Scientist Award in
the field of Microbiology by Venus International Foundation; BRICPL Science Investigator Award and
Research Excellence Award, etc. He has been serving
as editorial board member: Frontiers in Microbiology,
Frontiers in Nutrition, Archives of Phytopathology and
Plant Protection, Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Academia Journal of Biotechnology,
Journal of Renewable Materials including Series editor
of Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences, Springer
Nature, USA. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting
Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; and Research
Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science
and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou,
China.
Contributors
Suraini Abd-Aziz Department of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Cahyono Agus Faculty of Forestry, UGM, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Tamansiswa Alumni Board (PKBTS), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Nurul Haziqah Alias Department of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Eddie Bain Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, North West University,
Potchefstroom, South Africa
R. Balasubramanian Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India
Eduardo Almeida Benalcazar Faculty of Chemical Engineering, State University
of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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