Dr. J. Rajesh Banu, Associate Professor, Department of life sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Neelakudy, Tamil Nadu, India was formerly Assistant Professor in Anna University Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, India, Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. He is also a visiting researcher in East China Normal University, China. He is the author of 180 publications in SCI and SCIE journals with a cumulative impact factor of 691.38. His publications achieved more than 4000 citations. He has authored 2 books and published 22 book chapters and 14 conference proceedings. He obtained 5 Major grants from Government of India and two consultancy from industries. He has guided 14 Ph.D. students and 70 post graduate engineering students in the discipline of environmental engineering and Science. He was awarded with think of ecology award by Hiyoshi Japan for the year 2018. Dr. Rajesh banu’s research centres on biological wastewater treatment, Nutrient removal, Membrane Bioreactor, Microbial Fuel cells and Energy recovery from, micro and macroalgae biorefinery, lignin valorization.