Madan L. Verma was awarded his Ph.D. in Microbial Biotechnology and subsequent to that he was an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India, before coming to Deakin University, Australia, in early 2011. He has been working in the the Department of Biotechnology, School of Basic Sciences at Indian Institute of Information Technology Una (IIITU), Himachal Pradesh, India. His current research at IIIT Una is Nanobiotechnology that includes (i) biophysical and biochemical characterization of microbial enzymes, (ii) immobilization of various hydrolytic enzymes on different novel nanoscale supports and (iii) Computational biotechnology with potential applications in food, pharmaceutical and bioenergy sectors.