Carlos Ricardo Soccol is the research group leader of the Department of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, with vast experience in biotechnological research and development of bioprocesses with industrial application. He graduated in Chemical Engineering (UFPR, 1979), and received his Master’s in Food Technology (UFPR, 1986) and PhD in Genie Enzymatique, Microbiologie et Bioconversion (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, 1992). He served as a post-doctoral at Institut ORSTOM/IRD (Montpellier, 1994 and 1997) and the Université de Provence et de la Méditerranée (Marseille, 2000). He is HDR Professor at Ecole d’Ingénieurs Supériure of Luminy, Marseille-France. His main research activities are in the areas of Food Science and Technology, with emphasis on agro-industrial and agro-alimentary biotechnology, with specific topics on bioprocess engineering and solid-state fermentation, submerged fermentation, bioseparations, industrial bioprocesses, enzyme technology, tissue culture, bio-industrial projects, and bioproduction. He is currently the Coordinator of the Master BIODEV-UNESCO program at UFPR. He is the Associate Editor of five international journals and Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology.