Dr. Maulin P. Shah
Chief Scientist & Head-Industrial Waste Water Research Lab,
Enviro Technology Limited
India
Biography
Maulin P. Shah, currently Chief Scientist & Head – Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Godhra, Gujarat University in 2001. He is a Microbial Biotechnologist with diverse research interest. A group of research scholars is working under his guidance on the areas ranging from Applied Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, and Industrial Liquid Waste Management to solid state fermentation. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, he is also very interested in genetic adaptation processes in bacteria, the mechanisms by which they deal with toxic substances, how they react to pollution in general and how we can apply microbial processes in a useful way (like bacterial bioreporters). One of his major interests is to study how bacteria evolve and adapt to use organic pollutants as novel growth substrates.
Research Interest
GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, WASTE WATER MICROBIOLOGY, FERMENTATION MICROBIOLOGY, MOLECUALR MICROBIOLOGY, BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING, MOLECULAR GENETICS, CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY, BIO-REMEDIATION, BIO-DEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY