Prof. (Dr.) Pradeep Kumar Das Mohapatra is working as Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Raiganj University, Raiganj-733 134, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal, India. He is also acting as a Director of “Professor A. K. Bothra Environment Conservation Centre”, Raiganj University. Prof. Das Mohapatra has significantly contributed in the field of Microbial Enzyme technology, Environmental and Industrial Microbiology. He has worked on microbial nutrition & diversity, Fermentation, Probiotics, Immobilization, Bioremediation, Bioinformatics etc. He is presently working on Metabiotics. Prof. Das Mohapatra has published 04 books more than 219 original research papers in reputed National and International Journals, 25 book chapters and filed 03 Patents. Prof. Das Mohapatra has more than 24 years of research and 17 years of teaching experiences and received research funds from UGC, Govt. of India, ICMR, Govt. of India, Biostadt India Ltd., Mumbai, Sanzyme Private Limited, Hyderabad, The Waterbase Limited, Chennai etc. 18no. of Ph.D. students already awarded Ph.D. under his supervision and 08 are working. Prof. Das Mohapatra has received Jr. Scientists of the Year award 2008 and Environmentalist of the Year Award 2009 from National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi. He is nominated as fellow of the Society for Applied Biotechnology in the year 2011. He is also serving as an editorial board member of three journals and reviewers of many journals of Elsevier, Blackwell, Springer and Taylor & Francis. Prof. Das Mohapatra is also associated with many academic and research societies like AFB (France), NESA (New Delhi), BRSI (Trivandrum), AMI (New Delhi), PBVM (Kolkata), The Indian Science Congress Association (Kolkata), SAB (Dharward), MBSI (Maharashtra) etc.
