Dr. Vishal Ahuja received a Ph.D. and master’s in biotechnology from Department of Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh University. He has >6 years of experience in developing process for waste valorization from different sources. He has expertise in fungi and bacterial cultivation, fermentation, downstream processing and characterization. He has worked at CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, India in FTT project and currently working as Assistant Professor Research and Development at Chandigarh University India. He has >45 publications in form of research, review articles and chapters , and 1 edited book. Based on his research contribution in agricultural waste valorization he is awarded with “Young Scientist Award? by Society of Agriculture Research and Social Development, New Delhi, India.