Fermented Foods and Beverages

Ramesh C Ray (Edited By, Series Edited By)
Ramesh C. Ray, Ph.D., is an agriculture and food microbiologist, author, editor and is currently serving as an adjunct professor in industrial biotechnology at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA), deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. He is a former distinguished member of Agricultural Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, and Head of the Regional Centre, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute at Bhubaneswar, India. Dr. Ray has over 45 years of research experience in agriculture, food, and industrial microbiology. He has published around 250 research and scientific articles including 80 book chapters, edited and co-edited 26 books, and co-authored three books. Dr. Ray was a visiting professor and scientist at several universities and research institutes in India and abroad and a consultant on sweet potato with the International Potato Center (CIP). He was a guest faculty member in Applied Microbiology at Utkal University, India, from 2000 to 2010. Dr. Ray is a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi, and the National Academy of Biological Sciences, Chennai, India. His name is included among the top 2% of scientists in the world (in the year 2020-2024) in the database prepared by Stanford University.

Vasco Azevedo (Edited By)
Prof. Vasco Azevedo is a senior professor at the Department of Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and a Knight of the National Order of Scientific Merit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation. He is also a researcher 1A of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), which is the highest position. Professor Azevedo graduated from veterinary school at the Federal University of Bahia, in 1986. He earned his master's in 1989 and Ph.D. in 1993 in molecular genetics from the Institute National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INAPG) and Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France. Dr. Azevedo conducted post-doctoral research at the Microbiology Department of Medicine School at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 1994. In 2017, he earned another Ph.D. in the field of bioinformatics. His total research publications include more than 500 research articles, nine books, and more than 52 book chapters. Professor Azevedo is a pioneer in the genetics of lactic acid bacteria, Probiotics, and Corynebacterium genomics in Brazil.