Marine Bioenergy: Trends and Developments

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Se-Kwon Kim is a distinguished professor in the Department of Marine-Bio Convergence Science and the director of the Marine Bioprocess Research Center at Pukyong National University Busan South Korea. He received his M.Sc and Ph.D from Pukyong National University and conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign USA. He has served as a visiting scientist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's Canada; president of the Korean Society of Chitin and Chitosan and the Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology; chairman of the 7th Asia-Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium; and chief editor at the Korean Society of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. Widely published Dr. Kim holds 76 patents and is a board member of the International Society of Marine Biotechnology and the International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Food.Choul-Gyun Lee is a professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at Inha University Incheon South Korea. He is also the director of the National Marine Bioenergy Research and Development Consortium funded by the Korean government president of the Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology chair of the Interdisciplinary Program on Future Energy Engineering and head of the Institute of Industrial Biotechnology as well as the Lipidomics Research Center. He received his Ph.D from the Department of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor USA and worked on the Advance Life Support Team at NASAs John F. Kennedy Space Center Cape Canaveral Florida USA before joining Inha University where he has held a number of administrative positions. In addition Dr. Lee has served as either an editorial board member or an associate editor for six different journals.