Dr. Pradeep Kumar Das Mohapatra did his Ph.D. in the year 2008 from Vidyasagar University. He is now working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Raiganj University, Uttar Dinajpur, PIN-733 134, WB, India. Dr. Mohapatra has significantly contributed in the field of Enzyme Biotechnology, Environmental and Industrial Microbiology. He has worked on microbial nutrition & diversity, Fermentation, Probiotics, Immobilization, Bioinformatics and enzymes like Tannase, Xylanase, Amylase, Cellulase, Keratinase etc. Dr. Mohapatra has published more than 113 original research papers in reputed National and International Journals, 05 book chapters, 04 review papers, 06 popular articles and filed 01 Patent. He also attended 08 training programmes on microbial research, covered 39 National and International conferences and delivered 15 invited lectures. Dr. Mohapatra has received research funds from UGC, Govt. of India, BIOSTADT INDIA LTD. etc. 04 Ph.D. students already awarded and another 03 Ph.D. thesis have been submitted for award under his supervision. Dr. Mohapatra has received Jr. Scientists of the Year award 2008 and Environmentalist of the Year Award 2009 from National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi. He is nominated as fellow of the Society for Applied Biotechnology in the year 2011. He is also serving as an editorial board member of two journals and reviewers of many journals of Elsevier, Blackwell, Springer and Taylor & Francis.

Dr. Mohapatra has significantly contributed in the field of Enzyme Biotechnology, Environmental and Industrial Microbiology. He has worked on microbial nutrition & diversity, Fermentation, Probiotics, Immobilization, Bioinformatics and enzymes like Tannase, Xylanase, Amylase, Cellulase, Keratinase etc.