Enzyme Technology for Environmental Sustainability, Waste to Wealth, and Circular Economy

Shrikaant Kulkarni, PhD, currently works as a Research Professor at Sanjivani University, Kopargaon, India, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Business, Victorian Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Kulkarni has been a Senior Academic and Researcher for 42 years. He has published 100+ research papers in national and international journals and conferences of repute. He has edited 50+ books and authored 100+ book chapters in books published by CRC, Springer Nature, Apple Academic Press, Elsevier, Wiley, and IET. He has authored four textbooks on engineering chemistry too. Dr Kulkarni possesses MSc, MPhil, and PhD degrees in Chemistry and Master’s degrees in Economics, Business Management, and Political Science. Two of his patents have been published and two more are applied for grants. He was invited by UNESCO for an invited talk on “Green Chemistry Education for Sustainable Development.

A. K. Haghi, has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 1000 publications, including books, book chapters, and papers in refereed journals with over 3700 citation. He is currently a senior material engineering consultant in the UK. He has received several grants, consulted for several major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He has served as a member of the Canadian Research and Development Center of Sciences & Cultures and the Research Chemistry Centre, Coimbra, Portugal and supervised several PhD and MSc theses at the University of Guilan (UG) and co-supervised international doctoral projects. He holds a BSc in urban and environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina and holds two MSc, one in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University and another one in applied mechanics, acoustics, and materials from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne.

Ricardo Gómez-García, PhD, completed his doctorate program in Biotechnology at the Catholic University of Portugal (2017–2022). He graduated as a chemical engineer (2016) from the School of Chemistry, Autonomous University of Coahuila (UA de C), Mexico. He started his scientific career at the UA de C Food Research Department, where he gained great expertise in food engineering and technology, food chemistry, and biotechnology. For his PhD, he worked to develop innovative and sustainable technologies within the context of a zero-waste and circular economy approach for the extraction and identification of functional bioactive compounds with industrial interest from fruit byproducts for their valorization and reincorporation into the industrial value chains. Dr. Gómez-García is the author and co-author of 16 articles in indexed journals, seven chapters in books of international circulation with prestigious publishers, and one European provisional and one national patent applications. He has participated in more than 15 international congress communications in areas related to biotechnology, food science and technology, and bioengineering. He has also been participating in several national and international entrepreneurship programs in Portugal and across Europe through the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT Food).