Arindam Kuila is an assistant professor at the Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. Previously, he worked as a research associate at Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre, Bangalore, India. He gained his PhD from the Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2013 in the area of lignocellulosic biofuel production. He has co-authored 18 peer-reviewed research papers, 7 review papers, edited 4 books, 8 book chapters and filled 5 patents.

Mainak Mukhopadhyay is an assistant professor at the Department of Biotechnology, JIS University, Kolkata. Previously, he worked as a research fellow at ONGC Energy Centre, Delhi, India. He gained his PhD from the Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2014. His PhD research was focused on degradation of lignin present in lignocellulosic biomass for the higher production of second-generation bioethanol. His research interests also consist of enzymology, nanobiotechnology, biomass conversion technology. He was awarded a Petrotech Research Fellowship in 2008. In 2016 he was awarded the Early Career Research Award from DST-SERB. He has co-authored 10 peer-reviewed papers, 3 review papers, 10 book chapters and filled 2 patents. Less