Dr. Burhan Hamid, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Department of Microbiology, Centre of Research for Development (CORD), University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India since 2019. He has 12 years of teaching and research experience. He has worked as researcher in Regional Research Station (RRS) for biofertilizers at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K), India. His area of interest in teaching and research are environmental microbiology, psychrophiles, cold-active enzymes, agricultural microbiology, food and industrial microbiology. Dr. Hamid is a reviewer for various national and international journals and has published more than 57 research papers, review papers and book chapters with reputed publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, MDPI, Taylor & Francis. Moreover, he has worked as Senior Microbiologist in ISO/IEC-17025 accredited laboratory at Baddi, India. He is also supervising M.Sc. Microbiology students in their dissertation and project works. Dr. Mohammed Kuddus. PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology. After completing PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology, he worked in different R&D projects funded by various scientific agencies. Prof. Kuddus’ main research area includes biochemistry, industrial enzymes, waste utilization, extremophiles, microbial and food biotechnology. He has more than 15 years of integrated teaching and research experience and published more than 75 research articles in peer reviewed international journals along with 8 books and 22 book chapters. Also, published 40 abstract at International/ National conferences and symposia and received best presentation awards. He supervised 6 PhD thesis and 12 PG/UG dissertations. He has been serving as an editor/editorial board member for 20 and reviewer for more than 40 international peer-reviewed journals; along with research grant reviewer for scientific body of USA, Italy, South Africa, India and Saudi Arabia. He has also been awarded SERC Young Scientist Project from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India; and Young Scientist Project from International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Ghazala Yunus has completed her PhD in biophysics and presently working as an Assistant Professor at University of Hail, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Yunus’s main research area includes medical physics, molecular docking, Drug-DNA interaction, biosensors, and nanotechnology. She has published more than 20 research articles in reputed international journals along with two books. She has been serving as an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of various international reputed journals.