Biofuels and Bioenergy Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Mitigation

Nitish Kumar is Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research–Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has published more than 100 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 25 book chapters and 25 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of agriculture and industrial and bioenergy crop and plants. Dr. Kumar is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014 He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious government organizations like CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others. He is a reviewer for various International Journals and serves as an associate editor of the journal Gene (Elsevier).