Obulisamy Parthiba KarthikeyanDr. Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan (OPK) (Ph.D.) is a Chief (Microbiology) officer at Austin Elements Inc., Houston, Texas, USA. He has over 15 years of international research experience in the field of environmental microbiology and biotechnology. H also achieved few meritorious awards such as Australia-Thailand Early Career Research Exchange Award-2014, Sêr Cymru National Research Network for Low Carbon Energy and Environment Writing Fellowship and Award-2018 (UK), and Ramalingaswamy Re-Entry Fellowship-2018 (India). Dr. OPK serve as a peer review member assessor for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-USA, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada, Horizon H2020-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships-Europe, Australian Research Council-Australia, and the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)- Belgium. He is associated editor for the Frontiers of Microbiotechnology and guest edited few special issues for few publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and MDPI. He has published more than 65 research/review articles in Scopus indexed journals, 4 books, 10 chapters and 2 editorials. His research interests and knowledge spans on various research topics including solid waste landfilling, Composting, Microbial engineering, Greenhouse gas fermentation into value products, waste biorefinery, Bioreactor engineering and Bioleaching of metals. Read More Read Less