Sustainable Radiation Technologies in Waste-biomass Valorization: Greener Energy and High-Value Product Generation

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Prof. Pradeep Verma completed his Ph.D. from Sardar Patel University Gujarat India in 2002. He worked as a visiting scientist and Post Doctoral Researcher at UFZ Center for Environmental Research Halle and Gottingen University Germany respectively. He Joined Reliance Life Sciences Mumbai and later he was awarded the JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellowship and joined the RISH Kyoto University Japan. Prof. Verma began his independent academic career in 2009 as a Reader and Founder Head at the Department of Microbiology at Assam University. In 2011 he joined Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University) Bilaspur as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology. Currently he works as a Professor and Group Leader of the Bioprocess and Bioenergy laboratory at the Department of Microbiology School of Life Sciences Central University of Rajasthan Ajmer India. His area of expertise involves Microbial Diversity Bioremediation Bioprocess Development and Lignocellulosic and Algal Biomass based Biorefinery. He also holds 12 International patents in microwave-assisted biomass pretreatment and bio-butanol production. He has completed two collaborated projects worth 150 million INR in microbial diversity and bioenergy. He has more than 92+ research/review articles in peer-reviewed international journals and contributed to several 52+ book chapters in different edited books. He has also edited 20+ books for international publishers. . His work has attracted significant impact which is evident from 6370+ citations with h-index 42 i-10- index-99  He is a Guest editor to the reviewer to several reputed journals of Springer Frontiers MDPI Bentham Sciences and T&F. He is a member of various National & International societies/academies. He is also a recipient of various prestigious awards such as the Ron-Cockcroft Award by the Swedish society and UNESCO Fellow ASCR Prague. He has been awarded with Fellow of Mycological Society of India (MSI-2020) Prof. P.C. Jain Memorial Award Mycological Society of India 2020 and Fellow of Biotech Research Society India (2021). Dr. Bikash Kumar is currently working as a National Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore He received his BSc (Hons-2012) and MSc (Distinction-2014) in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur (A Central University) and Pondicherry Central University respectively. Later in 2014 he joined the Bioprocess and Bioenergy Laboratory under the research supervision of Prof Pradeep Verma from the Department of Microbiology Central University of Rajasthan India. The research was focused on biomass pretreatment and microbial enzyme production (cellulases laccase xylanases) for greener energy and environment. He received his Ph.D. in 2021 and Post PhD he worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has contributed 19 research/review papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals and 19 book chapters in edited books published in Springer CRC Press and Elsevier. He has been acknowledged for providing technical support to Prof. Pradeep Verma in editing 11 books. His work has attracted significant impact which is evident from 1980+ citations with h-index 21 i-10- index-27. He is the recipient of several awards i.e. AMI-Young Scientist Award INSA-NASI-SRF CSIR-SRF JNMF scholarship DST-SERB N-PDF etc. He is a reviewer of 20+ peer-reviewed research journals and a Guest Editor in reputed journals.