Author: Vipin Chandra Kalia

Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia is presently working as Chief Scientist, and is the Deputy Director, at Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi. He is a Professor, Ac SIR, who obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Genetics, from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been elected as: (1) Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), (2) Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS), and (3) Fellow of the Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI). His main areas of research are Microbial biodiversity, Bioenergy, Biopolymers, Genomics, Microbial evolution, Quorum sensing, Quorum quenching, Drug discovery and Antimicrobials. He has published 99 papers in Scientific journals such as (1) Nature Biotechnology, (2) Biotechnology Advances, (3) Trends in Biotechnology, (4) Annual Review of Microbiology, (5) Critical Reviews in Microbiology, (6) Bioresource Technology, (7) PLo S ONE, (8) BMC Genomics, (9) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, and (10) Gene. He has authored 14 book chapters. His works have been cited 3267 times with an h index of 31 and an i10 index of 59. He has Edited 3 books: (i) Quorum Sensing vs Quorum Quenching: A Battle with No End in Sight (2015), (ii) Microbial Factories   Vol.  1: Biofuels, Waste treatment (2015) and (iii) Microbial Factories   Vol. 2:  Biodiversity, Biopolymers, Bioactive Molecules (2015). He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Microbiology and editor of: (1) Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology (Korea), (2) International Scholarly Res. Network Renewable Energy, (3) Dataset Papers in Microbiology, and (4) PLo S ONE. He is a life member of the following Scientific societies: (1) Society of Biological Chemists of India (2) Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, India; (3) Association of Microbiologists of India; (4) Indian Science Congress Association; (5) Bio Energy Society of India, and (6) the Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI). He is also a member of the American Society for Microbiology.