Maulin P Shah, PhD
Chief Scientist & Head, Industrial Wastewater Research Lab, Applied & Environmental Microbiology
Enviro Technology Limited (R&D Institute), Ankleshwar, India
Biography
Maulin P. Shah, currently working as a Chief Scientist & Head ? Industrial Wastewater Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Godhra, Gujarat University in 2001. He is a Microbial Biotechnologist with diverse research interest. A group of research scholars is working under his guidance on the areas ranging from Applied Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, and Industrial Liquid Waste Management to solid state fermentation. My primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, He is very interested in genetic adaptation processes in bacteria, the mechanisms by which they deal with toxic substances, how they react to pollution in general and how we can apply microbial processes in a useful way (like bacterial bioreporters). One of our major interests is to study how bacteria evolve and adapt to use organic pollutants as novel growth substrates. Bacteria with new degradation capabilities are often selected in polluted environments and have accumulated small (mutations) and large genetic changes (transpositions, recombination, and horizontally transferred elements). His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification and Genetic Engineering of high impact of Microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. He has more than 200 research publication in highly reputed national and international journals. He directs the Research program at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar. He has guided more than 100 Post Graduate students in various disciplines of Life Science. He is an active Editorial Board Member in more than 150 highly reputed Journal?s in the field of Environmental & Biological Sciences. He was Founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation and Biodegradation (2012-2014) as well as Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012-2014) (Science and Education Publishing, USA). He is also serving as a reviewer in various journals of national and international repute. He is acting as Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews (Taylor & Francis) Journal since last one year, He is also associated as an associate or editorial board member in 28 journals of Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, IOP, Taylor & Francis, De Gruyter. He has edited more than 175 books in wastewater microbiology, environmental microbiology, bioremediation, hazardous waste treatment.
Research Interest
Area of Expertise is Applied & Industrial Microbiology, Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Wastewater Engineering, Activated Sludge Process, Anammox, Nitrification, Denitrification, Modified Ludzack Ettinger Process (MLE), Advanced Oxidation Process, Bio electrochemical Oxidation Process, Toxic Pollutant Removal Technology, Biological System Improvement of Effluent Treatment Plant
