Vijai Kumar Gupta holds a doctoral degree in Microbiology from Dr RML Avadh University, India. Currently, he is working at the Center for Safe and Improved Foods and Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Center, SRUC, Edinburgh, UK. Dr Gupta is an expert in Biomass Valorisation, Microbial Engineering Biotechnologies, Bioactive Natural Products, and Functional Microbiome. He has 231 peer-reviewed publications, 43 book chapters and 39 books to his credit. Additionally, he is the editor of several reputed journals including, Biotechnology Advances, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Microbial Cell Factories, STOTEN, Microbiome, and SREP.