Agrifood Waste as Biofertilizer

Prof. Manju Gupta is currently working as a professor in the Department of Botany at Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi. She has 31 years of teaching and research experience, and she has finished four research projects. Her 35 research publications with high impact factors have been published in international journals. She is the writer/editor of books and the Springer Nature magazine special issue "Symbiosis." In addition to organizing five national and international conferences, she has given 38 speeches in various nations and continents. She was given fellowships and honors. BOYSCAST scholarship from the Indian Department of Science and Technology several travel grants from various nations and organizations.

Dr. Abha Kumari is working in a capacity as an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh. She obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering (Materials Engineering) with over 20 years of experience in teaching and research. Her research area focuses on municipal waste management, bioprocess development, enzyme isolation and production, and biogas. She has completed three government-funded projects obtained from the Department of Biotechnology. She has published several book chapters and has about 25 research and review publications. She is editing a book on biofuels, which will be published by Springer.

Dr. Anirudh Sharma has been working at the Department of Biotechnology, JIIT, since July 2023. Before joining JIIT, Dr. Anirudh Sharma worked as an assistant professor at the University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, from January 2019 to June 2023. He completed his PhD from the Department of Biotechnology at the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in 2018. During his PhD, he qualified for CSIR-SRF in 2014 and availed of a of a CSIR fellowship. He got his Master's degree in Biotechnology from Choudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, in 2010.

In the past, Dr. Anirudh Sharma had worked as a junior research fellow on a DAE-BRNS-sponsored project. During this project, he worked at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, at periodic intervals as part of the assignments under the sponsored project. He worked as a project fellow at INMAS-DRDO from July 2010 to July 2011. His core area of research is to develop a process for biofuel production from waste feedstocks through biocatalysis.