Dr. Jayesh Sonawane is currently working as a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and Center for Global Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. He is developing liquid stream treatment for the "Reinventing the Toilets" project funded by Bill and Melinda gates foundation. Dr. Sonawane received a joint Ph.D. in 2018 from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, and Monash University Australia. Soon after graduation, he joined Innotech Interventions as a lead scientist and developed a 400 L bioelectrochemical treatment process to treat petroleum wastewater at Oil India, Assam. He is a recipient of the prestigious "Excellence Research award 2016-18" from the Prime minister of India. He is also the recipient of the esteemed "Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) 2016-17" from Shastri Indo-Canadain Institute. Dr. Sonawane has broad research interests, including microbial fuel cells, 3D biofilm printing, nanowires based biosensors, and a non-precious metal catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction.