Biomaterials from Lignocellulosic Biomass

Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as an ‘Assistant Professor in Smart Food’ at China Beacons of Excellence Research and Innovation Institute (CBI), University of Nottingham Ningbo China (CBI-UNNC), Ningbo, China. Her research area is dedicated to advancing the future of the food by developing cutting-edge food processing technologies, nanoencapsulation strategies, 3D food printing, and innovative green extraction methods for food waste valorization to develop smart and functional foods. Dr. Sharma has been awarded with ‘Young Scientist Award’; with prestigious “The BEWARE Fellowship” co-funded by the Marie Actions Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) of the European Commission from 2021-2024 (Belgium), and have been listed among World’s Top 2% Scientists by Elsevier and Stanford University ranking (2023, 2025). She is the editor of few international journals including, Scientific Reports, Biofuel Research Journal, Journal of Food Biochemistry, Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, Indian Journal of Microbiology, Frontiers in Nutrition, etc.

Dr. Deepti Diwan is a research instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Dr. Diwan has garnered more than ten years of multidisciplinary research experience in diverse fields, including cancer, epigenetics, erythropoiesis, genomics, hemorrhagic stroke, microbiology/virology, nanotechnology, nanomedicine, protein-carbohydrate interactions, and radiation biology. She contributed to numerous research and review articles and presented academic and research-based papers at several national and international conferences. She also serves as an editor of international journals, namely, Biomaterials and Polymers Horizon, Nanofabrication, and Microbial Biosystems. Dr. Diwan and her group developed Genome Profiling (GP) technology and Microarray-with-Manageable Volumes (MMV) techniques. They were the first to successfully test the application of GP and MMV at the single-cell level to detect intra-organism differences.

Yogendra Kumar Mishra is Professor MSO and Leader of Smart Materials group at Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Sønderborg, Denmark. Prior to SDU, he was leading an independent research group on 3D Nanomaterials at Functional Nanomaterials Chair, Kiel University, where he introduced the new flame-based technology for tetrapod nanostructuring including their 3D highly porous networks as flexible ceramics. He is collaborating with prestigious laboratories worldwide and maintains a large collaborative research network and is very active in science communication with society. He has received many notable awards, like, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2008), Young Investigator Award (under 40) from BHJ Fonden-Denmark and has won several successful grants. Prof. Mishra is very well known worldwide for his research activities on 'Functional Tetrapod based Nanology'.

Dr. Yevgen Karpichev is a Senior Research Scientist and Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering team leader at Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia. Prior joining ERA Chair of Green Chemistry at TalTech in 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University (Canada), CNRS Visiting Researcher at IECB (Bordeaux) and Laboratory of IMRCP (Toulouse). Visiting Professor at Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse, France) and University of Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic). The scientific expertise covers designing safer chemical and formulation using green chemistry principles, biodegradations studies, tuning nanostructures, chemical decontamination, green chemistry approaches to replace hazardous chemicals; chemical methods for biomass (lignin and lignocellulose) valorisation.

Prof. Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta is working as an Associate Professor and Bioprocess Engineering Lead at the School of Biotechnology at Dublin City University, Ireland. The overall focus of his research is on developing bioprocess technologies to valorise available bioresources (including dairy waste-streams) to produce value-added bioproducts and fuels. He has several articles, book chapters, and books with an author H-index of 81. Also, he is the editor of several reputed journals, including Biotechnology Advances, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry Letters, Microbial Cell Factories, Microbiome, Mycosphere. He is listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University-USA