Vinod Kumar
The University of Nottingham, UK
Biography
Currently, I am working as Marie Curie Fellow at Synthetic Biology Research Centre, The University of Nottingham, UK. I am working in the area of Biorefinery using Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology tools for the sustainable production of biofuels and biochemicals through second generation biorefinery. So far I have published 19 research articles, two book chapters and two review articles. I have done my PhD (Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology) and M.Sc (Chemistry) from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. I have more than 13 years of research experience including my PhD and 5 year Post-Doctoral experience (France, S Korea, UK). In last 13 years, I got exposed to various areas of Biotechnology; Biochemical Engineering, Microbial Fermentations, Plant cell Technology, Agricultural Biotechnology, Metabolic Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology. I worked on different biological systems; fungal, yeast and bacterial and carried out research in multidimensional projects aiming at “Development of low cost, energy efficient and sustainable Bioprocesses for production of Biofertilizers, Biopesticides, Biofuels and Biochemicals”.