Advances in Functionalized Nanocomposites for Water Remediation

Dr. Piyush Kumar is an Associate Professor at School of Health Sciences & Technology, UPES, Dehradun, India. He did his M.Sc. in Biophysics (2003-2005, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology) and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (2006-2010, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand). He has worked as a Research Associate at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, during 2010-2014 and as a MHRD post-doc researcher at the same institute during 2014-2017 and as Assistant Professor at Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Haryana, India, during 2017-2020. Dr. Kumar's research contributions are highly interdisciplinary. His research interests are Nanobiosensors, functionalized nanomaterials, and applications of probiotic enzymes in value addition of food. He has actively worked in the designing and constructing of Aptasensors and nanoengineered surface modification strategies for pathogenic bacteria and hazardous xenobiotic molecules, nano and natural products based combinatorial strategies to control pathogens and therapeutic applications probiotic enzymes.

Dr. Gupta is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Graphic Era University in Dehradun, India. She completed her Master's degree in 2011, earning a Gold Medal, followed by her Doctorate in Biotechnology from 2012 to 2016. Dr. Gupta was awarded the DST INSPIRE Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, during her doctoral studies.

Dr. Gupta's research group focuses on engineering nanomaterials, specifically nanofibers and nanocomposites, for biofilm mitigation in wastewater treatment. She has also conducted studies on heavy metal remediation using microalgae and explored yeast-based wastewater treatment for triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation. Additionally, she is investigating microbial adaptation to various environmental conditions through NMR-based metabolomics and transcriptomics.

Dr. Shivangi Chamoli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Graphic Era University in Dehradun, India. She earned both her Master's and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India.

Dr. Chamoli's primary research interests includes molecular biology, enzymology, biofuels, bioremediation, and nanotechnology. She is actively engaged in a research project funded by the Government of India that focuses on the degradation of xenobiotic compounds in wastewater. Additionally, she investigates the structural and functional aspects of proteins through bioinformatics studies.

Dr. Alok Patel is an Assistant Professor in Biochemical Process Engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering at Lulea University of Technology (LTU), Sweden. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at IIT Roorkee, India, in 2017.

Dr. Patel began his research career in the Biochemical Process Engineering group at LTU, where he leads a microalgal-based biorefinery project and serves as the principal investigator for a research grant funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas. He is also a co-principal investigator on several projects funded by the EU Horizon program and various national agencies.