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Sanket J. Joshi
Summary
Sanket Joshi is a Deputy Director, Oil & Gas Research Center, and Laboratory Application Specialist, Central Analytical and Applied Research Unit, at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He holds BSc and MSc degrees from Sardar Patel University, India, and a PhD degree from M. S. University of Baroda, India – all in Microbiology. Dr. Joshi has 16 years of academic teaching and research experience, and 4 years of industrial R&D experience, in India and Oman. While working in Indian pharma companies, he undertook several turnkey projects (both upstream and downstream) on antibiotics (β-lactams, macrolides, glycopeptides), antidiabetic drug (for type II diabetes), and Co-enzyme Q10. His current research interests encompass: Energy (In-situ/ex-situ microbial enhanced light/heavy oil recovery; chemical enhanced oil Recovery; biofuels); Microbial products (biosurfactants, biopolymers, R&D and scale-up); and Environmental bioremediation (crude oil pollution; analysis, mitigation and control of souring by Sulfate reducing bacteria; HPAM contaminated sites). Those research projects are multidisciplinary, involving both biotechnology and engineering disciplines. Since he joined SQU, his research team has received over 5.4 million USD in research grants and service contracts, and established bioproducts for petroleum and environmental applications. He has 166 scientific publications as papers in international journals (76), book chapters (17), conference proceedings (66), international books (6), and one Australian Innovation Patent to his credit. He serves as an Academic/Associate Editor for some of the highly reputed journals: Frontiers in Microbiology, PeerJ, Ecotoxicology (Springer), Petroleum Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis, UK), Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Springer), BMC Biotechnology, and Open Biotechnology Journal. He is book series editor of ‘Advances in Biotechnology and Bioengineering', Elsevier INC.; Guest editor for Energies, Frontiers in Microbiology, Sustainability, Scientifica, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and Open Biotechnology Journal; and a recognized reviewer for more than 50 international journals (Elsevier, Springer Nature, T&F, Wiley/AOCS, RSC, ACS, Hindawi, DE Gruyter, MDPI and others).
Agricultural Science Aquatic & Marine Chemistry Atmospheric Chemistry Biochemistry Biodiversity Bioengineering Biogeochemistry Biogeography Bioinspired materials Biomaterials Biomolecules Bioorganic Chemistry Biosphere Interactions Biosynthesis Biotechnology Cell Biology Ecology Ecotoxicology Environmental Contamination & Remediation Environmental Sciences Food Science & Technology Food, Water & Energy Nexus Green Chemistry Marine Biology Microbiology Molecular Biology Mycology Natural Resource Management Toxicology