Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as an ‘Assistant Professor in Smart Food’ at China Beacons of Excellence Research and Innovation Institute (CBI), University of Nottingham Ningbo China (CBI-UNNC), Ningbo, China. Her research area is dedicated to advancing the future of the food by developing cutting-edge food processing technologies, nanoencapsulation strategies, 3D food printing, and innovative green extraction methods for food waste valorization to develop smart and functional foods. Dr. Sharma has been awarded with ‘Young Scientist Award’; with prestigious “The BEWARE Fellowship co-funded by the Marie Actions Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) of the European Commission from 2021-2024 (Belgium), and have been listed among World’s Top 2% Scientists by Elsevier and Stanford University ranking (2023, 2025). She is the editor of few international journals including, Scientific Reports, Biofuel Research Journal, Journal of Food Biochemistry, Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, Indian Journal of Microbiology, Frontiers in Nutrition, etc.Prof Vivek obtained his B.E. degree (1988-92) in Pulp & Paper Engineering, and M.E. degree (1992-94) in Chemical Engineering with specialization in Industrial Pollution Abatement. He completed his Ph.D. in 2000 from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow, IWT, Applied Science University, Wolfenbuttel, Germany from 2000-01. He has been involved in teaching and research in IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi since 2004. He was a Visiting Research Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada from 2014/6-2014/7. He has been the recipient of many awards and honors including SRF Grant awarded from Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute for a proposal entitled ‘Novel Treatment Technology for High Salinity Water Using Membrane Distillation. He was elected International Director of Bio-Forest Product Division of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) for three years from 2014-2017. Meisam Tabatabaei is a Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. From 2010 to 2019, he worked closely with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to promote waste-oriented biofuels in the developing world. Since 2016, he has been the lead collaborator of the Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK). He has published over 450 works, including original research papers and reviews in leading journals such as The Lancet, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Nature Food, Trends in Biotechnology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He currently serves as a Visiting Professor at Henan Agricultural University (China), Visiting Professor & Global Ambassador at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Zhengzhou University (China). He has held top editorial roles in journals with impact factors above 30 and is currently Associate Editor of Critical Reviews in Biotechnology and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. As of June 2025, Prof. Tabatabaei has led and collaborated on 24 research projects with a focus on waste valorisation and biorefineries, sustainable aquaculture, climate change, and food security. Dr. Manikant Tripathi is an Assistant Professor in the Biotechnology Program at Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya, in India. His primary research interest is to explore different efficient strategies toward bioremediation of environmental pollutants and microbial applications for value added product development. His current research work focused on microbial biotechnology, valorization of food wastes into value added products, green synthesis of nanoparticles and their antimicrobial activities, environmental pollution abatements, antimicrobial activities of plant based novel food materials. His research findings have been published in different peer-reviewed journals, and he is the recipient of many awards, including Best Poster Award, Young Scientist Award, Best Oral Presentation Award, and Excellence in Research Award for contribution in the field of Microbiology. He is also Editorial Board Member of many International Journals. His thrust research area includes microbial technology, industrial microbiology, environmental microbiology, nanobiotechnology, bioprospection of novel biomolecules, bioremediation. Prof. Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta is working as an Associate Professor and Bioprocess Engineering Lead at the School of Biotechnology at Dublin City University, Ireland. The overall focus of his research is on developing bioprocess technologies to valorise available bioresources (including dairy waste-streams) to produce value-added bioproducts and fuels. He has several articles, book chapters, and books with an author H-index of 81. Also, he is the editor of several reputed journals, including Biotechnology Advances, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry Letters, Microbial Cell Factories, Microbiome, Mycosphere. He is listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University-USA
