K. C. Mondal

Dr. Keshab Chandra Mondal is Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He was awarded Chancellor’s Gold medal for scoring the first rank in M.Sc. examination. Since the last 25 years, he has been serving at the Faculty of Raja N L Khan Women’s College and Microbiology Department, Vidyasagar University in various capacities. He is a renowned academician and scientist in the area of microbial enzymes, gut flora, probiotics and fermented foods. His research efforts have been focused on understanding the microbial diversity of traditional fermented foods and their impacts on gut flora as well as anti-diabetic, antiobesity and antitoxic potentialities. He is standardizing traditional fermented foods for improvement of quality, hygienic status and market potentialities. Exploration of effective probiotic organisms and microbial enzymes are also his field of research. Prof. Mondal has published more than 162 scientific papers, 8 reviews, 20 book chapters and one text book (Microbial Fermentation and Enzyme Technology) from CRC press. He is the Associate Guest Editor for Frontiers in Nutrition, Frontiers in Sustainable Food system and Frontiers in Microbiology and member of editorial board in Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science, and Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology. Prof. Mondal has guided more than 100 dissertation projects, 4 M.Phil students and produced 19 Ph. D. students. He is the recipient of Indo-Hungarian fellowship in 2014 and Tempus Public Foundation (TPF) fellowship, Hungary for the year 2015-16. He has been conferred Fellow of Biotech Research Society, India (2020) and Fellow of Physiological Society of India (2021). He has widely travelled in Europe and many other countries and has delivered lead talks in many conferences and has organized several conferences and workshops.

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2015