Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow. His major research and technological development interests are industrial and environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels and chemicals, waste to wealth and energy, etc.

Carlos Ricardo Soccol - Heat Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology Division at Federal University of Paraná-Brazil, Mentor of Master and PhD program (1997) at the Federal University of Paraná. Mentor of the Centre for Agro-industrial and Agri-food Biotechnology of Paraná-CENBAPAR (2004). 10 Parana Science and Technology Award (1996). Best Scientific Achievement of the Year 2001 by Ministry of Sugar of Cuba (MINAZ). Scopus/Elsevier Award (2009). Doctor Honoris Causa Université Blaise Pascal-France (2010), Outstanding Scientist Award- 5th International Conference on Industrial Bioprocesses, Taipei-Taiwan (2012). Elected Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences - Engineering Area (2013). Henri Nestlé Prize in Food Science and Technology (2014). Polytech-Reseau Écoles d'Ingénieurs de France Medal (Paris 2015). Medal and Diploma of Merit, CREA-PR (2016). Scientific and Technological Merit, Legislative Assembly of the State of Paraná (2016). Scientist of the Year - Nanocell Institute (2017), Order of Scientific Merit - Commander Class, MCTIC/ Brazil Presidency of the Republic (2018).The IBA Felow- Mexico (2021). Full Professor of Industrial Biotechnology at the Federal University of Paraná and HDR Professor - École Supériure D’Ingénieurs de Luminy, Aix-Marseille Université-France. Editor, Journal Biotechnology Research and Innovation. Vice-President Brazilian Biotechnology Association (2021 - ). Has experience in Industrial Biotechnology, with an emphasis on the following specialities: Bioprocess Engineering and Applied Biotechnology (Agriculture, Food, Human Health, Animal Health, Industrial Biotechnology, Cosmetics, Environment and Bioenergy). To date, he has supervised 25 postdoctoral fellows, 95 doctors, 132 masters and has 1.488 publications/communications, including 35 books, 210 book chapters, 541 full articles published in periodicals, 185 full papers published in event proceedings, 397 abstracts published in event proceedings. He has registered 120 patents, several of which are with companies and have been licensed. His research articles have been cited more than 45.950 times in the Google Scholar Citations database, with an H factor of 104.

Prof Claude-Gilles DUSSAP is graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toulouse in 1978. He did her PhD degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department, focusing on development of bioreactor at the University Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand). He is presently head of the team Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in the Institut Pascal (University Blaise Pascal -- CNRS). He has been much involved in the analysis of the relationships, which exist between the physiological responses of microorganisms and bioreactors environment. This includes insightful investigation in metabolic engineering (metabolic fluxes distribution, control and regulation of metabolism) and thorough analysis of bioreactor performances regarding the mass, heat, light-energy transfer and mixing properties of reactors. He has a strong experience in mathematical modelling of biological kinetics, thermodynamical equilibrium properties of aqueous solutions and of reactor characteristics. He has a track record experience in the design and the mathematical modelling of MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) ecosystem, which is the biological life support system developed by European Spatial Agency (ESA) for long duration spatial missions. His main domain of expertise covers all the process engineering aspects of the bioreactors design, modelling, scale-up and control in relation with the food quality and nutritional properties of food recipes for spationauts. He has been in charge of the definition of Life Support issues in the European framework program AURORA. He is member of the evaluation committee of European Science Fondation. His main research activities concern Chemical engineering; Metabolic engineering: metabolic fluxes calculation; Mass and energy transfer modelling and assessment of coupling with metabolic limitations; Applied thermodynamics (modelling of equilibrium properties); and Thermokinetic modelling and application of Thermodynamic of Irreversible Processes to biotransformations.

His interests have been extended to bioenergy production processes and assessment of environmental impact of biotechnology processes regarding 2G and 3G biofuels. The results of these research works have been published in 150 papers. He has supervised 25 PhD students and 70 MSc lab works.