Shantanu Bhunia, currently working as SRF under WB-DST sponsored research scheme entitled ‘Production of organic fertilizer by utilizing rural slaughterhouse wastes and its application for the cultivation of potato and vegetables’ at School of Environmental Studies of Jadavpur University. He completed his B.Sc. degree in Botany (H) from Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya affiliated to Vidyasagar University (2015) and obtained his M.Sc. in Botany with special paper ‘Microbiology’ from Vidyasagar University (2017). Shantanu’s Ph.D. work is on ‘Performance of recycled slaughterhouse waste as plant nutrient on some vegetable crops cultivated in Gangetic alluvial region of West Bengal’. He received prestigious Indianoil scholarship (2010-2012) at higher secondary level and SVMCM scholarship (2015-2017) for PG study. He has published two research articles, one review and two book chapters as well as being co-inventor of a patent (370569 of 2021) granted in India. He was awarded for best poster presentation at Vidyasagar University (2017) and IIT Guwahati (2020).