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bodies. He was recently listed in Stanford University's World Top 2% Scientists Rankings for 2023. He has published many scientific journals and conference proceedings in refereed national and international journals with over 580 manuscripts, including over 40 books and many scientific patents with Google Scholar i10-Index 136. He was ranked recently as number 1st among the top 500 prolific authors in Nigeria from 2020 to till date by SciVal/SCOPUS, and recently, he was ranked number 1 in two different fields from biological sciences and agricultural science among 500 prolific authors from 58 different countries in Africa
Dr. Mudasir A. Dar is one of the young scientists in the field of environmental science and microbial-technology. His research interest includes a wide range of resource recovery, microbial technology, and bioengineering fields. His research experience includes gut-microbiome analysis in insects, snails, and termites with an expertise on metagenomics and transcriptomics. Currently, he is working as an associate professor at Jiangsu University, China. He has received funding from many international agencies such as NFSC, MoST-China, and China Postdoctoral Organization. He has published over 45 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He is serving as active editorial board member of many reputed journals, such as BMC Microbiology (Springer Nature) and Engineering Microbiology (Elsevier). He is an active regular reviewer of many journals published by Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, RSC, and Taylor & Francis. He has many awards to his credit such as CSIR-UGC-NET, Maulana Azad National fellow, UGC-UPE II fellow, etc.



Prof. Daochen Zhu is currently working as a professor at Biofuel Institute, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. Previously, he had served as an associate professor and assistant professor at the same university. He has earned his PhD in Environmental Biochemistry from Kobe University, Japan (2008). He has completed his BS in Fermentation Engineering from Dalian Polytechnic University, China (2004). During the tenure of his career, he also worked at Washington State University, USA, as a visiting scholar (2015-2016). He is a recipient of numerous awards and funding, which support his research at Jiangsu University, China. Dr. Zhu is a recognized guide for MS students. He is a reviewer and editorial board member of various peer-reviewed journals of international repute. His research group mainly focuses on microorganism resource and diversity, lignin biodegradation and chemicals product, and biodegradation of organic pollutants. He is also interested in the mitigation of microplastic through bioremediation technology. Dr. Zhu has 50 peer-reviewed publications, 12 patents, and 4 book chapters and 3 edited books to his credit with international repute.