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Prof. Gaurav Rajauria

Prof. Gaurav Rajauria

Associate Professor , Life Science

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About

Professor, Gaurav Rajauria is working as an Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer in  School of Microbiology, School of Food and Nutritional Science, SUSFERM Centre for Sustainable Fermentation and Bioprocessing Systems for Food and the Bioeconomy University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. He is also working as Distinguished Professor in Department of Lifescience, Sharda University.

Engagement and Internationalisation

  • National Expert - Sustainable Food Systems, chosen by the European Commission, to create an EU roadmap for a just climate transition for developing the policies under the EU Green Deal.
  • Editorial Board Member. Nature Scientific Reports, Nanofabrication and Marine Drugs
  • Journal Guest Editor, Special issues at Natures Scientific Reports, Nanofabrication and MDPIs Molecules, and Marine Drugs
  • Member, EDI Learning Committee for creating e-learning space and mapping activities across the university
  • Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Plant-Microbe Interaction (2020) India; National Bioengineering Conference (2023) India

Lead Editor of 3 Books - Fruits Juices: Extraction, Composition, Quality and Analysis, Elsevier (2017); Recent Advances in Micro and Macroalgal Processing: Food & Health Perspectives, Wiley-Blackwell (2021); Emerging Technologies in the Bio-marine Food Sector: Applications, Regulations and Prospects, Elsevier (2022).

Experience
  • More than 16 years
Qualification
  • Ph.D.
Award & Recognition

  • Conference Award. Phytochemical Society of Europes Young Scientist Meet at Crete (Greece) June 2011.
  • National Winner. Irish Research Councils (IRC) best commercialisable research idea in Ireland 2013.
  • Selected Among the Top 50 Global Ideas for Entrepreneurship Programme 2014 for new start-ups by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for patented bioprocess technology.

Research

  • Research Funding to date 7.8 million
  • 97 Scientific Articles including journal articles, reviews & chapters (39 - First/Senior author; 58 - co-author).
  • Inventor of 2 Patented Technologies. Multi-technology system to recover high valuable nutraceuticals from seaweed and Nutraceutical preparation made from macroalgae extract, comestible substance comprising it, and extraction process.
  • Listed on the Worlds Top 2% Scientist Ranking (Highly Cited) over the past four consecutive years by Stanford University, USA.
  • Funded Investigator (FI) at the Science Foundation Ireland-BiOrbic Bioeconomy Research Centre
  • Emerging Research Leader and Group Co-lead (REiSA) – Established a research group ‘REiSA - Research & Education in Sustainable Agriculture funded by MTU-TUTF in 2022.

Certifications

  • Certificate in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Maastricht University, The Netherlands March-April 2021
  • Certificate in Research Integrity. Epigeum Online course system, Oxford University Press March 2019 Certificate in Project Management.
  • Project Management Institute (UK) July-August 2016

Area of Interest

  • Microbial biotechnology