Meet the editors

Dr. J. Rajesh Banu is an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), India. He is also a visiting professor at the Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia. He has seventeen years of teaching experience at national (Anna University and CUTN) and international universities (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea).

He is a visiting researcher at East China Normal University, China, and a former post-doctoral fellow at SKKU. He is the author of 250 publications in SCI and SCIE journals and a senior editor of e-Prime. He has authored three books, fifty book chapters, and fourteen conference proceedings. He obtained seven major grants from the Government of India and two consultancies from industries. He has guided seventeen Ph.D. students and 100 postgraduate engineering students in the discipline of environmental engineering and science. Dr. Banu is on Stanford University's list of the World's Top 2% Scientists and the recipient of the 2018 Hiyoshi Think of Ecology Award. His research centers on waste to energy, value-added product recovery from waste, biological wastewater treatment, nutrient removal, membrane bioreactors, and microbial fuel cells.

Dr. Kavitha Sankarapandian obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Biotechnology discipline from Anna University, Chennai, India. She received her bachelor's degree in Microbiology and a master's in Biotechnology from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India. Her research interests include the generation of energy from biomass, micro and macroalgae biorefinery, lignin valorization, and microbial fuel cells. She

has authored seventy-six articles in SCI and SCIE journals, one book, and fourteen book chapters. She is also a reviewer and editorial board member for various international journals. She has received three best poster awards at international conferences. Dr. Kavitha was ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2020.

Dr. Yukesh Kannah Ravi is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, State University of New York at Albany, USA. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, a master's degree in Environmental Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India. His research focuses on the conversion of waste biomass to bioenergy/biofu-

els, biological wastewater treatment, biomass biorefinery, and value-added product recovery. He has authored and co-authored forty-five peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and twenty book chapters. He is also a reviewer and editorial board member for various international journals. Dr. Yukesh has received three best poster awards at international conferences.
