Dr. Deepika Dave is a research scientist in the Marine processing Department of the Center for Aquaculture and Sea Food Development and an adjunct assistant professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Newfoundland. She obtained B Eng in Environmental Engineering (1995) from L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, M Eng (1999) in Environmental Engineering from B. V. M. Engineering College,, V. V. Nagar and Ph D in Environmental Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in India. Dr. Dave worked as Environmental engineer with Alpanil Industries in Gujarat, India (1996), Graduate Assistant at BVMVV Gujarat, India (1996-1999), Environmental Engineering with V E Consultant Gujarat, India (1999-2004), Graduate Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in India (2004-2008), Research Associate, Dalhousie University in Canada (2009-2012) and Research Scientist, Center for Aquaculture and Sea Food Development and Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Newfoundland, Canada (since 2012). Dr. Dave has over 13 years of research experiences and has been able to attract large industrial research contract. She has coordinated several workshops, chaired several conference sessions and participated in technology transfer to industry. She has served as a reviewer for many international journals and is a member of 7 technical societies. Dr. Dave has participated in training and supervision of 7 technical staff and has 36 journal papers, 14 conference presentations and 8 technical reports.

Dr. Dave specializes in the areas of Bioprocessing (including process control and optimization, process kinetics, drying, upstream and downstream processing), the area of Waste Utilization (including recovery of high value compounds from marine wastes such as chitin,n,anticoagulants, protein, amino acids and oil), the area Energy (including biomass characterization, production of biogas, bioethanol and biodiesel) and the area of Environmental Engineering (including waste reduction, recycling and treatment, bioremediation of contaminated air, water and soil).