Dr. Prasanta Kumar Choudhury is currently working as Associate Professor and Head in the Department of Dairy Technology, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Paralakhemundi Campus, Odisha. He obtained his Ph. D degree from the prestigious ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal in the field of Dairy Microbiology. He has more than 12 years of experience at various capacities in different national and internationally funded research schemes and teaching. In addition to that, he has also published more than 30 research papers/reviews/book chapters in journals of national and international repute and more than 800 citations to his credit. Most outstandingly for his contributions in anaerobic microbiology he has received many awards for his presentations at various scientific forums. His field of expertise is associated to probiotic functional foods and anaerobic microbiology.