Durga Madhab Mahapatra is an Assistant Professor (Selection Grade) at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Energy Cluster, School of Advanced Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India. Before joining UPES, he was with the Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering (BEE), School of Engineering (SoE), Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, OR, USA from 2016 onwards as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Teaching staff, and Affiliate. He completed his Doctoral studies in Bioprocess Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 2015 from the Faculty of Engineering with a Gold Medal. His major areas of interest are Sustainable Bioprocess Development, Bioenergy and Bioresources, Wastewater Metagenomics, Wastewater Treatment and Waste Biorefinery, and Nano-biotechnological Applications in Agricultural, and Environmental Research.