**About the Editor**

**Shashi Kant Bhatia** working as an Associate Professor at Dept. of Biological Engineering Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, and have more than ten year's experience in the area of biowastes valorization into bioenergy, biochemicals, and biomaterials. Dr. Bhatia has contributed extensively to the industrial press and serving as an Editorial Board member of *Sustainability* (MDPI) journal, Associate Editor in *Frontier of Microbiology*, *Microbial Cell Factories*, and *PLoS ONE* journals. He has published more than 100 research/review articles on industrial biotechnology, bioenergy production, biomaterial, biotransformation, microbial fermentation, and enzyme technology in international scientific peer-reviewed journals and holds twelve international patents. He is also selected in the Top 2% Scientist list of Stanford University. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Himachal Pradesh University (India). He has qualified JNU combined Biotechnology entrance, DBT-JRF, GATE, CSIR exams. Dr. Bhatia has worked as a Brain Pool Post Doc Fellow at Konkuk University (2014–2016), South Korea. He can be reached by email at shashibiotechhpu@gnmail.com.
