Pratima Bajpai is currently working as a consultant in the field of paper and pulp. Her research career spans about 40 years, having worked at the National Sugar Institute, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Western Ontario, and the Thapar Research and Industrial Development Centre in India. She also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and as a visiting researcher at the Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Dr. Bajpai’s main areas of expertise are industrial biotechnology, pulp and paper, and environmental biotechnology.

• 1. General background2. Biorefinery industry development drivers3. Biorefinery value chain - economical and technical considerations4. Composition and characterization of lignocellulosic biomass5. Enzymes Responsible for Lignocellulose Degradation6. Challenges in the engineering of lignocellulolytic enzymes7. Mining and engineering for better enzymes8. Construction of high-performance enzyme cocktails9. Microorganisms for Lignocellulose Degradation10. Fermentative production of chemicals with recombinant cellulose-utilizing microbe11. Advances in cellulase-expressing microbes used for the production of chemicals12. The Approaches for Bioconversion of Lignocelluloses13. Perspectives for future CBP microorganisms14. Utilisation of lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose and derived sugars15. Present and future prospects of lignocellulosic valorization16. Lignocellulosic biorefinery in emerging circular bioeconomy and SWOT analysis for future development of biorefineries17. Challenges and viewpoint of biorefinery