Dr. Suraja Kumar Nayak obtained Ph.D. from Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology in 2013 and is presently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Odisha University of Technology and Research (formerly College of Engineering and Technology), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Dr. Nayak has 09 years of teaching and research experience in the field of Microbiology and Biotechnology. His areas of teaching and research include general and environmental microbiology, soil & agricultural microbiology, industrial and food biotechnology, microbial biotechnology. Dr. Nayak has 20 publications including book chapters in various journals and publishers of national and international repute (h-index: 07 and Citation: 300 in Google Scholar). He has also submitted 06 accession no. to NCBI, USA and has presented papers in various national and international conferences. He has edited 3books in microbiology and biotechnology published by national and international publishers. 05 numbers of M.Tech and more than 15 B.Tech students have successfully completed their dissertation under his guidance and presently two more are actively working. Dr. Nayak has 20 publications including book chapters in various journals and publishers of national and international repute.
Bighneswar Baliyarsingh, Ph.D., is presently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Odisha University of Technology and Research (formerly College of Engineering and Technology), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He obtained one of his postgraduate degrees, M. Sc. in Biotechnology, from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India followed by M. Tech in Biotechnology from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India, sponsored by Dept of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India in the year 2007. He also obtainedhis Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India. He has gained research and industrial work experience by serving in different institutes like ICAR-NRRI-Cuttack, Bose Institute-Kolkata, AIIMS-New Delhi with brief industrial exposure through BCIL-BITP, sponsored by DBT, Govt. of India. He has qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligible Test (NET) in year 2007. He has successfully supervised good number of M. Tech and B. Tech dissertation works, continuously. He has published more than 15 articles including research papers, reviews and book chapters in various journals and publishers of national and international repute (h index: 4 in Google Scholar).
Ilaria Mannazzu, Ph.D. in Microbial Biotechnology, was promoted to associate professor in Microbiology at the University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy in 2001 and professor of microbiology in 2014 she obtainedthe National Academic Qualification as full professor of Microbiology. Her teaching activity mainly involves General Microbiology, Microbial Biotechnology and Food Microbiology and includes master and doctoral seminar courses. Her research interests cover the biodiversity, physiology and genetics of microorganisms of biotechnological relevance, mainly Saccharomyces cerevisiae and non-conventional yeasts. Also her research activity focuses on: (i) microbial interactions for the development of natural antimicrobials; (ii) Saccharomyces cerevisiae and non-Saccharomyces yeasts in wine and beer; (iii) fermentative stress response in wine yeasts; (iv) biotechnological production of primary and secondary metabolites; (v) heterologous expression of microbial proteins. She has coauthor of 75 publications in international peer reviewed journals with 4244 citations (h index 27, www.scopus.com as on today), 10 book chapters, and more than 100 communications, proceedings and posters presented at national and international conferences and papers in technical journals. She has been invited as a speaker at many national and international conferences. She is also a reviewer of many international journals, member of the editorial board of Fermentation (MDPI), Microorganisms (MDPI) and World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (Springer) etc. Member of the teaching board of the School of Doctorate in Agricultural Sciences of the University of Sassari, she participates to the preparation of the doctoral degree study programme in Biophysical Chemistry of Brno University of Technology, Czechia. She represents the University of Sassari in the General Assembly of MIRRI IT-JRU and she is a member of Società di MicrobiologiaAgraria, Alimentare e Ambientale (SIM3A) and of the Italian Group of Wine Microbiology.
Dr. Ashutosh Singh is presently working as Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, Canada. After completing B.Tech.in Biotechnology from Vellore Institute of Technology, India in 2007, he obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Bioresource Engineering, from McGill University, Canada in 2010 and 2014 respectively. Before joining the University of Guelph, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University
