Algal Biorefinery: A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications

Algal Biorefinery: A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications focuses on algae's possibilities, assets, and functions as a renewable and sustainable resource that can act as an excellent alternative to withstand adverse environmental conditions to generate useful products. Thus, apart from helping reduce environmental pollution and the carbon footprint, algae can help mitigate factors causing rapid climate change via concurrent bioremediation, resource recovery, and environmental sustainability.

This comprehensive book will examine dedicated state-of-the-art information on the topic of how algae can act as a cushion against climate change. It will also explain how algal-based biorefineries can act as a potential solution to climate change, lack of natural resources, and environmental pollution

Dr. Sanjeet Mehariya (PhD) is a scientist at CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP), Lucknow, India. In addition, Dr. Mehariya holds an Assistant Professor position at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) in Ghaziabad, India. Also, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biosciences, Manipal University, Jaipur, India. He worked as a Post-Doc Researcher at the Algal Technology Program, Center for Sustainable Development, Qatar University, Qatar, and Umeå University, Sweden. Also, he worked as a visiting Researcher at the Department of Microbiology, Central University of Rajasthan, India. Dr. Mehariya earned his PhD from the European Project in Italy in 2020. Since 2023, he has been selected in the Top 2% Scientist list by Stanford University, USA, continuously, and he has published 90+ publications, including research, review articles, and book chapters, with high citations and an h-index of 40. Also, he has edited 7 books and 1 special issue. He has 14+ years’ experience from i) Qatar University, Qatar; ii) Umeå University, Sweden; iii) Sapienza―University of Rome, Italy; iv) University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy; v) Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; vi) ENEA-Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy vii) Konkuk University, South Korea; and viii) CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India. Dr. Mehariya serves as a reviewer for various funding agencies, including Horizon H2020-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships-Europe, and a reviewer for high-impact peer review journals, including Nature Communications, Chemical Engineering Journal, and many others. He is a life member of various global scientific societies.

Dr. Shashi Kant Bhatia is an Associate professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, and has more than ten years’ of experience in biowaste valorization into bioenergy, biochemicals, and biomaterials. He holds an M.Sc and a Ph.D in biotechnology from Himachal Pradesh University (India). Dr. Bhatia has worked as a Brain Pool Post Doc Fellow at Konkuk University (2014–2016) and has contributed extensively to the industrial press and served as an editorial board member of Sustainability and Energies journal and associate editor of Frontier of Microbiology, Microbial Cell Factories, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Bioprocess and Biosystem Engineering, Carbohydrate Technology and Applications, 3 Biotech, and PLOS One journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Biotechnology for Sustainable Materials journal. He has published more than 200 research and review articles on industrial biotechnology, bioenergy production, biomaterials, biotransformation, microbial fermentation, and enzyme technology in international scientific peer-reviewed journals and holds 15 international patents. He has also edited 7 books on microbial biotechnology. With more than 15000 citations with an h-index of 66 and an i10 index of 216 (As per Google Scholar), he is included in the top 2% of the Scientist List at Stanford University. Dr. Bhatia has successfully supervised and completed three projects funded by NRF Korea ($ 600,000).

Dr. Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan (OPK) is a Director of EHS at Austin Elements Inc., Houston, Texas, USA. He has over 15 years of international research experience in the field of environmental microbiology and biotechnology. He had secured a sum of $500,000 of research/consultancy funding within the last 8 years from national/international agencies. He is nominated for the prestigious Presidential Chinese Academy of Science Awards 2021 from Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Changsha, China. In the past, he had achieved few meritorious awards such as Australia-Thailand Early Career Research Exchange Award-2014, Sêr Cymru National Research Network for Low Carbon Energy and Environment Writing Fellowship and Award-2018 (UK), and Ramalingaswamy Re-Entry Fellowship-2018 (India).