Biographical note

Prof. Joginder Singh is a Professor at the Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, India. Previously, he worked as a Professor in the School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University and also as a Young Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Biofertilizer Laboratory, Department of Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University on a research project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations, including the Association of Microbiologists of India, the Indian Society of Salinity Research Scientists, the Indian Society for Radiation Biology, and the European Federation of Biotechnology. He has published extensively with Elsevier and Springer both in journals and books. He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals, including Current Research in Engineering, Science and Technology; Journal of Cleaner Production; Science of the Total Environment; Environmental Monitoring and Assessment; Pedosphere; Soil and Sediment Contamination; Symbiosis; International Journal of Phytoremediation; Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety; Annals of Agricultural Sciences; and Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow. His major research and technological development interests are industrial and environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels and chemicals, waste to wealth and energy, etc. Dr. Simranjeet Singh is presently working as post-doctoral fellow in Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Previously he was working as Project Scientist at Punjab Biotechnology Incubators, Mohali (India). Dr. Singh has been conferred the “Young Scientist” award by the IOSRD in 2018. He has more than 65 research and review articles and 33 book chapters. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations including, Asian Chemical society, Society for the Green Environment and editorial board member of Mini Review in Organic chemistry. Prof. Vinod Kumar Garg is presently working as Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India. Previously, he has worked at Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology and CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India, in different capacities. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations including, Biotech Research Society of India, Indian Nuclear Society etc. He was elected Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India in 2011. He has completed several research projects funded by various funding agencies. He was awarded “Thomson Reuters Research Excellence – India Citation Awards 2012”. Prof. Praveen C Ramamurthy received M. Sc. in Polymer science in 1995 from University of Mysore and PhD degree from Clemson University in the year 2004. He worked as a R&D Engineer in Therm-O-Disc, Mansfield, OH, USA and Research Scientist in Hoku Scientific, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He joined IISc in the year 2007 and currently a Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering. He is also Associate faculty in Centre for Nano Science and Engineering and Inter Disciplinary Centre for Energy Research. His current research focuses on organic electronics including synthesis of conjugated polymer for the application in photovoltaics, and sensors and device package application with focus on stability and large area device fabrication. He has over 190 peer reviewed papers published and 18 patents to his credit.