Advanced Bioseparation of Industrial Wastes: Sustainable Recovery of High-Value Metal Ions

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Dr. Jayato Nayak is a prominent researcher with more than 9 years of experience in the field of novel design and applications embracing the theme of process intensification. He completed his M.Tech & PhD from NIT Durgapur on Process Intensification in Acetic acid manufacture from waste material and collaborated his research with CSIR-CMERI. His core expertise includes Process Intensification Bioprocess Engineering water and wastewater treatment graphene integrated photocatalyst development and biosynthesis of value-added products. Currently along with the national collaboration with IITs NITs and CSIR Labs he has extended research collaborations with research professionals in Poland Brazil Malaysia Vietnam etc. By August 2022 he has published 25 international SCI/SCOPUS indexed peer reviewed journal papers more than 20 book chapters and filed 3 patents. As of now with huge number of citations he is having high h-index and i10- index. He provides expertise for several Webinars and FDPs; and as a Senior Editor Review Editor Guest Editor Editorial board member and recognized reviewer of more than 15 international journals. He has received two best research awards and five distinguished awards from various national and international organizations.Dr. Sankha Chakrabortty is assistant professor at the School of Biotechnology/Chemical Technology KIIT University India. He is a renowned researcher with over 10 years of expertise in the domains of Environmental Engineering and Green Technology. He has had his research published in over 32 SCI/SCOPUS indexed high impact factor journals and has filed seven patents. He has garnered 14 awards/achievements from different organizations over the course of his ten-year research career. He received the Springer's Best Paper Award-2015 in 2015 and the Best Researcher Award- 2020 from an international organisation in 2021 as well as the NESA Young Scientist of the Year 2020 from the National Environmental Science Academy. In addition Dr. Chakrabortty received an award from KIIT University in the field of STE-Young Scientist Award (Faculty Category) for his remarkable research effort.Suraj Kumar Tripathy currently works as Associate Professor and associate dean at the School of Chemical Technology and School of Biotechnology KIIT University where he heads Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering Lab. His area of research is processing of nanomaterials for water treatment heterogeneous catalysis and biomedical applications. He works closely with chemical and mineral industries to investigate the management of industrial wastes. He has published his research work in more than 60 SCI/scopus journals and also filed 8 Patents based on his research development out of which two patents have been granted by the authority. He has already finished four high-value projects as the principal investigator and currently three projects with a total value of three crores of Indian rupees are under his supervision. He is involved in a number of research partnerships with a variety of universities and research labs located in India as well as universities located in other countries. He is working on a couple of initiatives in other countries.Maulin P Shah is an active researcher and scientific writer in his field for over 20 years. He received a B.Sc. degree (1999) in Microbiology from Gujarat University Godhra (Gujarat) India. He also earned his Ph.D. degree (2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University Vallabh Vidyanagar (Gujarat) India. His research interests include Biological Wastewater Treatment Environmental Microbiology Biodegradation Bioremediation & Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants from Industrial Wastewaters. He has published more than 350 research papers in national and international journals of repute on various aspects of microbial biodegradation and bioremediation of environmental pollutants. He is the editor of 175 books of international repute (RSC Wiley DeGruyter Elsevier Springer and CRC Press). He has edited 25 special issues specifically in Industrial Wastewater Research Microbial Remediation Biorefinery of Wastewater Treatment area. He is associated as an Editorial Board Member in 25 highly reputed journals of Elsevier Springer Taylor & Francis Wiley.