Green Chemistry in Agriculture and Food Production (ePub)

Dr. Vinay Kumar completed his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has received prestigious awards including CSIR-JRF, DBT-JRF, CSIR-NET, GATE, and ICAR-NET. In addition, he completed a research grant from SERB as Principal Investigator at IIT Roorkee. He worked in various countries as a postdoctoral fellow. He has more than twelve years of research experience working on environmental engineering, nanobiotechnology and nanotoxicology. He has published several outstanding research papers in prestigious journals. Moreover, he has research collaboration with prominent scientists from Finland, Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Switzerland, Chile, Brazil, Ireland, Greece, etc. Currently, he is working as Professor at the Department of Community Medicine, Saveetha Medical College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, India.

Dr. Kleopatra Tsatsaragkou is a Chemical Engineer who graduated from the National Technical University of Athens. She holds a Ph.D. in Food Engineering Lab at Agricultural University of Athens, focused on Physical Properties of Foods. She has worked as a Research Engineer at the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Reading. Currently, she works as a Chemical Engineer at the Oil and Gas Industry.

Dr. Nilofar Asim obtained her BSc in Applied Chemistry (1995) and MSc in Inorganic Chemistry (1999) from Tehran University, and her Ph.D. in Materials Science (2008) from the National University of Malaysia. She is presently working as an Associate Professor at the Solar Energy Research Institute, a center of excellence for the research and development of solar energy technology, National University of Malaysia (UKM). She has been involved in the field of materials science for more than 24 years. Her main research interests fall into the fields of circular economy, especially in the areas of