Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia is presently serving as Chief Scientist and Deputy Director of Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics at CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi. He is a Professor, AcSIR, and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Genetics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc); the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS); and the Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI). His main areas of research are Microbial biodiversity, Bioenergy, Biopolymers, Genomics, Microbial evolution, Quorum sensing, Quorum quenching, Drug discovery and Antimicrobials. He has published 99 papers in prominent journals including Nature Biotechnology; Biotechnology Advances; and Trends in Biotechnology, and has authored 14 book chapters.  In addition, he has edited three books: (i) Quorum Sensing vs Quorum Quenching: A Battle with No End in Sight (2015); Microbial FactoriesVol. 1: Biofuels, Waste Treatment (2015); and (iii) Microbial Factories Vol. 2:  Biodiversity, Biopolymers, Bioactive Molecules (2015). He is presently Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Microbiology, while also serving as an editor of the Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology (Korea); the International Scholarly Res. Network Renewable Energy; Dataset Papers in Microbiology; and PLoS ONE. He is a life member of the following scientific societies: the Society of Biological Chemists of India; Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, India; Association of Microbiologists of India; Indian Science Congress Association; BioEnergy Society of India, and the Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI). He is also a member of the American Society for Microbiology