Environmental Technology and Sustainability

Dr. Basanta Kumara Behera was a Professor of Biotechnology at three distinguished Indian universities, where he taught and conducted research at the post-graduate level on medical biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, microbial process development, drug designing, bio-energy management, and biomass processing technology since 1978. In 2009, he joined an MNC company as an advisor for specialty chemicals production and drug design through microbial process technology. He is associated with national and international companies as a technical advisor to produce biopharmaceuticals under cGMP norms. Dr. Behera has authored and edited books with various publishers worldwide. Dr. Ram Prasad is an Associate Professor at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar, India. Dr. Prasad has served as an Assistant Professor Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles, and book chapters; has edited or authored several books; and has five patents issued or pending. He's on the editorial boards of a number of journals, and his research interests include plant-microbe interaction, agriculture sustainability, nanobiotechnology, and applied microbiology.