Ning He, PhD, Editor-in-Chief
Ning He is now working as Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Xiamen University, China. She was awarded her PhD in Fermentation Engineering from Jiangnan University in 2002. Between 2005 and 2006 she worked as a postdoctor at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Germany, and had some experiences as a visiting scholar in 2016 and 2019 at the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. Her research focuses on microbial manufacturing, including the development of technologies to enhance the efficiency of biological manufacturing processes, and analyzing the physiological characteristics and metabolic mechanisms of microbial cells. Dr. He has published over 100 journal articles and filed more than 20 patents. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Microbial Cell Factories.
Mingfeng Cao, PhD, Associate Editor
Mingfeng Cao is the Minjiang Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, the Director of the Institute of Bioengineering, and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory at Xiamen Laboratory, China. He was awarded his PhD from Nankai University in 2011, and between 2011-2013 worked as a Research Associate at Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed postdoctoral studies at Iowa State University and was a Research Scientist at University of Illinois from 2018-2021. His research focuses on the development of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering strategies to establish microbial cell factories for value-added and green chemical production. Dr. Cao has published over 50 journal articles and filed more than 10 patents. He also serves as the Associate Editor for several peer-reviewed journals like Microbial Cell Factories and Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts.
Lucília Domingues, PhD, Associate Editor
Lucília Domingues received her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2001 from University of Minho, Portugal with research stays at VTT, Finland. Currently, she is Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Biological Engineering at University of Minho, Director of the Master course in Biotechnology, Associate Director of the Centre of Biological Engineering and leads the Molecular Biotechnology and Microbial Physiology team. Her research work has been driven by the use of molecular biotechnology tools for microbial strain development and intensification of bioprocesses with focus on the utilization of renewable substrates and eco-sustainable production of bio-based chemicals and fuels with applications on the food, energy, chemical and/or biomedical industries. She is Associate Editor for Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts. Her updated research profile is available here.
Alok Patel, PhD, Associate Editor
Dr. Alok Patel is an Assistant Professor in Biochemical Process Engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering (SBN) at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden. After completing his PhD at IIT Roorkee, India, Dr. Patel started his research career within the Biochemical Process Engineering (BPE) group at LTU. His research is centered on the development of cutting-edge biotechnological processes, with a keen focus on converting organic matter into invaluable resources such as bioenergy, biofuels, and biochemicals. Dr. Patel spearheads the microalgal-based biorefinery in his division. He is leading or co-leading research projects funded by national agencies and the EU. Dr. Patel has published over 90 articles and three books. He is s an Associate Editor and board member for several peer-reviewed journals, including BMC Biotechnology.
Vijai Singh, PhD, Associate Editor
Vijai Singh is an Associate Professor and Head of Department of Biosciences, School of Science at Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He was an Assistant Professor in Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at the Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India and also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology (2009) from the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources/Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India. His research interests are focused on design of novel biosynthetic pathways for production of important biomolecules. His works on CRISPR-Cas9 tools for genome editing and regulation. He has more than 10 years of research and teaching experience in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, microbiology, and industrial microbiology. He has published more than 90 articles, 70 book chapters, 25 books and 3 patents. He serves as an Associate Editor and editorial board member for several peer-reviewed journals, including Microbial Cell Factories. He is also a member of the Board of Study and Academic Council of Indrashil University and is the Member Secretary of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) at the same University.
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