Dr. Nitin Trivedi, PhD

About

Dr. Trivedi obtained his Ph.D. in Biological Science from CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India in 2015. During Ph.D., he explored marine microbial enzymes to produce biofuel from seaweeds followed by designing a biorefinery process to extract value-added products from green seaweed. In 2015, he visited the University of Messina, Italy as a guest researcher in the Indian-EU collaborative project “Biowalk4biofuels”. Later, he joined DBT ICT CEB, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai as a Postdoctoral fellow (2015-2017) and worked on Seaweed growth optimization and sequential extraction of biobased products. Dr. Trivedi succeeded in receiving a prestigious DST INSPIRE Faculty fellowship (2017-2022) from DST (India) and continued working at DBT ICT CEB in the area of marine biotechnology and taught Microbiology, Research Methodology, and Biological Sciences in graduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. courses. Since 2009, Dr. Trivedi has been working in the area of Marine Biotechnology with a special emphasis on seaweed biotechnology and marine microbial biotechnology. So far, he has published 28 publications in SCI journals and two patents. He has delivered several national and international talks as an invited speaker. He has also been affiliated as a research advisory committee member/examiner with institutes of national and international importance and associated with several SCI journals/funding agencies as a reviewer.

Background

• 2015: Ph.D. in Biological Science from CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, Gujarat under AcSIR, New Delhi
• 2008: M.Sc. in Microbiology from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
• 2006: B.Sc. in Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Anand, Gujarat

Honours and Awards

• 2019: Visiting Scientist Fellowship at Centre of Marine Science, University of Algarve, Portugal
• 2017: DST INSPIRE FACULTY by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
• 2017: Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship. University Grant Commission, India
• 2016: Postdoctoral fellowship at Department of Plant, Food & Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, Canada
• 2015: Postdoctoral fellowship, DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India
• 2015: Agriculture Research Organization (ARO) Post-doctoral fellowship, Govt. of Israel, 2015
• 2015: Visited University of Messina, Messina, Italy from 10/03/15 to 25/03/15 as a part of EU collaborative project Biowalk4biofuel as a guest researcher.
• 2014: CICS International Travel Support, INSA, India
• 2014: 3rd Prize in Young Scientist in Bioprocessing in Bioprocessing India 2014 organized by ICT, Mumbai and IIT, Mumbai
• 2012: Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India
• 2011: Doctoral fellowship at Energy and Environment Fusion Technology Centre (E2FTC), Myongji University, South Korea (Not availed)
• Reviewer for: Energy & Fuel (ACS), Energy conversion & Management (Elsevier), Process Biochemistry (Elsevier), Rendiconti Lincei (Springer), 3 Biotech (Springer), Algal Research (Elsevier), Critical Review in Biotechnology (Taylor & Francis), Forensic Science International (Elsevier), Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (Springer), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (Korean Society of Breeding Science), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis group, Springer Nature

Research Group Overview

• Marine bioresources are gaining global attention as a source of food, feed, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and bioenergy. Among all, marine macroalgae and microbial diversity have been studied for different applications however there is still a huge scope to explore these resources for products of industrial importance. With the research expertise in seaweed biotechnology and marine microbial biotechnology, we are interested to pursue both fundamental and applied research on marine macroalgae and different marine microbial diversity. The potential bioresources will be utilized to produce products of industrial importance.

Publications

• Mhatre A, Gore S, Mhatre A, Trivedi N, Sharma M, Odaneth AA, Lali AM (2019). Effect of multiple product extractions on bio-methane potential of marine macrophytic green alga Ulva lactuca. Renewable Energy, 132, 742-751 (IF-8.0)
• Mhatre A, Navale M, Trivedi N, Pandit R, Lali AM (2018). Pilot scale flat panel photobioreactor system for mass production of Ulva lactuca (Chlorophyta). Bioresource Technology 249, 582-591 (IF-9.64)
• Lakshmi, DS, Trivedi N and Reddy, CRK (2017). Synthesis and characterization of seaweed cellulose derived Carboxymethyl cellulose. Carbohydrate Polymers. 157, 1604-1610 (IF- 9.38)
• Trivedi N, Baghel RS, Bothwell J, Gupta V, Reddy, CRK, Lali AM, Jha B (2016). An integrated process for the extraction of fuel and chemicals from marine macroalgal biomass. Scientific Reports. 6, 30728 (IF-4.38)
• Trivedi N, Reddy CRK, Radulovich R and Jha B (2015). Solid state fermentation (SSF)-derived cellulase for saccharification of the green seaweed Ulva for bioethanol production. Algal Research. 48-54. (IF-5.0)