1. Dr. Pankaj Kr. Rai is Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology, at Invertis University, Bareilly. He also served as Assistant Professor in Biotechnology Department, at Barkatullah University, Bhopal. He obtained his Doctorate from the Institute of Science, B.H.U., Varanasi on the topic “Hydrogen production from dairy and agro wastes by integrating dark- and photo-fermentation”. He has more than 12 years of academic and research experience, His research area of expertise is Fermentation Technology and Environmental Biotechnology. He has more than 50 international peer-reviewed publications and 10 book chapters with reputed publishers. He is on the editorial board of many International journals like Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal of Applied Biology & Biotechnology, CPQ Microbiology Journal and Journal of Energy, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, Current Pharmaceutical Design. He is also contributed to several journals as a Reviewer of Journals of repute like the International Jour