Dr B. Samuel Jacob, currently working as Assistant Professor at Department of Biotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India. He did his Ph.D. in Microbial Biotechnology, Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, India. He worked as Senior Research Fellow in a project at Agricultural Food Engineering Department and PK Sinha Centre for Bioenergy, IIT Kharagpur, India sponsored by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Energy Centre, New Delhi for 3 years 6 months.
Dr. K. Ramani is an Environmental Biotechnologist and currently working as Associate professor at Department of Biotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India. Her research interest includes development of sustainable technologies for the various industrial solid and liquid waste management, recovery of high value-added biomolecules from wastes for the industrial applications. She is having more than 10 years of research experience and 7 years of teaching experience. She was awarded “Tamil Nadu young Women Scientist Award” by the Government of Tamil Nadu, India for her outstanding research in the field of Environmental Sciences.
Dr. V. Vinoth Kumar is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, since June 2013. His research projects focus on designing integrated bioprocess approaches for the production of industrial enzymes, biosurfactants, biofuels, and platform chemicals for the biomass valorization and removal of contaminants from aqueous systems using dedicated lab/field experiments. Over the past 12 years, Dr. Vinoth has been involved in fruitful research and made significant contributions towards the development of various formulations of bioproducts for agro-biotech and food biotech industries.