Dr. D.K. Tuli earned his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry in 1977 and did his post-doctoral research at the University of Liverpool in 1978-81 and was a SERC senior research fellow at Robert Robinson labs, UK, from 1986-88. He supervised as Executive Director of the Indian Oil Corporation, Research and Development centre, Faridabad, India. He headed alternative energy R&D in IOC comprising areas of biofuels and bio-energy and solar energy for 12 years and has 14 US patents, 2 European patents, 24 Indian patents and 88 research publications. His major area of research interest is bioenergy, LCA, technology scale up and additives for fuels. For five years he headed the DBT-IOC Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research and was DBT Bioenergy Chair for three years. He has been an adjunct Professor at two Australian universities. Dr Tuli co-edited an Elsevier book in 2020 on microbial cellulases.