Microbial Bioprocessing of Agri-Food Wastes: Industrial Applications

This book will be dedicated to analyzing the main advances achieved in the use of alternative raw materials, such as biomass and other residues, aiming at their valorization in microbial metabolites of commercial, technological, economic, social and environmental potential.

Professor Gustavo Molina graduated in Food Engineering, earned his Master’s degree (2010) and his PhD (2014) at the University of Campinas - Unicamp (Campinas - Brazil), and part of his doctoral research was developed at the Laboratoire de Génie Chimique et Biochimique at the Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand - France). Since 2013, he is Associate Professor at UFVJM (Diamantina - Brazil) in Food Engineering and supervisor of students and researchers, being the head of the Laboratory of Food Biotechnology and conducting scientific and technical research.

Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as ERA Chair VALORTECH-Senior Research Scientist, Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU), Tartu, Estonia. She is also the Assistant Professor, Department of Food Technology, Akal College of Agriculture, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Dr Rachid Benhida is currently Director of research at CNRS (DR1), Co-Director of the ICN institute for more than 8 years, and team leader of Bioactive Molecules’ team. He received his Ph.D. from University of Paris XI, Orsay, France.

Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta received his PhD in Microbiology in the year 2009 from Dr RML Avadh University, India. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor (Biochemistry) at AgroBioSciences (AgBS)/Chemical & Biochemical Sciences (CBS), UM6P University, Morocco.

Prof. Ramesh Chander Kuhad is M.Sc, M.Phil and Ph.D. in Microbiology and has been working as Vice-Chancellor at the Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh. He is also the Chairman of Indian Academy of Microbiological Sciences and has served as Member, University Grants Commission and the Joint Director of Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL), University of Delhi, Delhi.