informationDublin City University, Ireland
Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta holds a doctoral degree in Microbiology and the expert in the area of Biomass Valorisation, Microbial Biotechnology, and Environmental Sustainability. He is the Secretary of European Mycological Association and also the International/ Visiting Professor of- Institute of Food Science and Technology & South China Botanical Garden, China; Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam; Szent István University, Hungary; Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, India. He is a Fellow of- Linnaean Society, UK; Mycological Society of India; National Academy of Biological Sciences India; Indian Mycological Association; Academic Member of Mexican Academy of Sciences, Arts, Technology and Humanities, Mexico, Fellow of Academy of Microbiological Sciences India and Member of Royal Society Biology, UK. He is the Grant Evaluator for the International Funding Agencies including European Science Foundation; NWO, The Netherlands; AgreenSkills, France; Endeavour Fellowships, Australia; Minerva Weizmann Projects Program, Israel.
He has established intense international research and academic collaborations. He has several publications in his hands and also the editor of few reputed journals including Biomolecules-MDPI, Microbial Cell Factories, Scientific Reports, Microbiome, and Biotechnology Advances. His challenge focussed research aims to develop technologies to valorise available bioresources and its potential to address the key challenges in the agri-food-pharma-energy and relevant sectors. He will be focused on- microbial glycobiotechnology, biomass to biorefineries towards sustainable product development and bioprospecting of bioresources.