Maulin P. Shah is the Chief Scientist & Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Laboratory, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. His work involves areas ranging from applied microbiology, environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, and industrial liquid waste management to solid-state fermentation. He has been focusing his research on the impact of industrial pollution on the microbial diversity of wastewater and genetically engineering high-impact microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. He has 380+ research publications in international top-rated journals, and edited 70+ books with several publishers including Springer.Satarupa Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Shyampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya, affiliated with the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She holds an MSc in Botany with a Microbiology specialization from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, and she did her PhD at the same University, where she focused her research on the bioremediation of toxic metals. She was selected Research Fellow at the Department of Biotechnology, and later worked as visiting scientist in the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She is the recipient of the Woman Scientist (WOS A) fellowship of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.