Algae Refinery: Up- and Downstream Processes

Sanjeet Mehariya (PhD) is a Researcher at the Algal Technology Program, Center for Sustainable Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Also, Dr. Mehariya worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Dr. Mehariya earned a PhD in engineering at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy. He has collaborated with national and international stakeholders, including policymakers, industries, and prominent RTD institutes in the field of biobased economy. He has worked at CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India; Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea; ENEA-Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy; and Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy.

Pradeep Verma (PhD) working at the Department of Microbiology, Central University of Rajasthan (CURAJ), Ajmer, India. Prof. Verma completed his PhD from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India, in 2002. He was selected as UNESCO fellow (2002) and joined Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. He later moved to Charles University, Prague, to work as Post-Doctoral Fellow. He joined as a visiting scientist (2004) at UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany. He was awarded a DFG fellowship (2004) to work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Gottingen University, Germany. He moved to India in 2007 where he joined Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai, and worked extensively on biobutanol production which attributed a few patents to his name. Later he was awarded with JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme and joined Laboratory of Biomass Conversion, Research Institute of Sustainable Humanosphere Kyoto University, Japan. He is also a recipient of various prestigious awards such as Ron-Cockcroft award by Swedish society, UNESCO Fellow ASCR Prague.