Dr. J. Rajesh Banu is presently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), India. He is also a visiting Professor at the Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia. He has 18 years of teaching experience in national (Anna University and CUTN) and international universities (SKKU, South Korea). He is a visiting researcher at East China Normal University, China and a former post-doctoral fellow at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea. He is the author of 290 publications in SCI and SCIE journals with a cumulative impact factor of 1852. His publications have achieved more than 10500 citations and a 56 H index. He is a senior editor of e-Prime, an Elsevier journal. He has authored 5 books and published 50 book chapters and 14 conference proceedings. He has obtained seven major grants from the Government of India and two consultancies from industries. He has guided 17 Ph.D. students and 100 postgraduate engineering students in the discipline of environmental engineering and Science. His name is classified among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by independent researchers of Stanford University. He was awarded the think of ecology award by Hiyoshi, Japan for the year 2018. His research centers on waste to energy, value-added product recovery from waste, biological wastewater treatment, Nutrient removal, Membrane Bioreactor, and Microbial Fuel cells.