Three start ups from my lab

• BacTreat Environmental Solutions LLP – My own start up focusing on Resource Recovery from Septage and wastewater treatment  - Implementing constructed wetland based treatment systems in 6 schools in Goa. Demonstrated Resource Recovery from Septage at Baina Sewage Treatment plant, funded by DBT BIRAC.
• 15% stake in Zycon Biosciences Pvt Ltd which is focusing on Enzyme production and Purification.
• Co founder of Tissues Engineered Private Limited

Workshops / Conferences organized

• India Benin workshop on Urban Rural Nutrient and Carbon cycle in collaboration with GIZ from 24^th – 27^th Nov 2018.
• Convenor of workshop NSA 2017: “Novel Sanitation approaches and emerging trends in Wastewater treatment system” from 19-21 of December, 2017 in association with Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and UNESCO IHE, Delft, Netherlands 
• Convenor of International conference on “Terra preta sanitation and decentralized wastewater systems” in collaboration with Technical University Hamburg, Harburg, Germany,  November 19 – 20, 2015
• Convenor of National conference “Decentralized biogas digesters and their slurry management” in collaboration with Institute of Agricultural and Urban Ecological Projects affiliated to Berlin Humboldt-University (IASP), Department of Biogene Resources, Berlin, Germany, during November 20 – 21, 2014
• Short course on Wastewater Treatment october 11 - 13 2011 for public works department, Goa in collaboration with Dr.Michel Torrijos Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, INRA, Narbonne, France.
• Convenor of International Water Association’s international conference  on “Microbes in Wastewater & Waste Treatment, Bioremediation and Energy Production”. This conference is scheduled during January 24 – 27, 2011 at  Birla Institute of Technology and Science – Pilani, Goa campus, Goa, India.
• Convenor of American Society for Microbiology sponsored International Workshop on Bioremediation. Jan 4 – Jan 16^th 2010 in association with Prof. Max Haggblom, Rutgers University, USA
• Convenor of Conference on Anaerobic Digestion and Renewable Energy through Microbes Jan 13 – 15 2009
• Editorial member of Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences
• Chief Editor of International Journal of Anaerobic digestion and Renewable Energy
• Reviewer of International Journal “ Bioresource Technology”
• Reviewer of “International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
• Reviewer of “Journal of Petroleum Technology and Alternate Fuels”
• Reviewer of “World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology”
• Faculty in charge for Institute’s Biological Sciences club called “SYMBIONTS”

International Research Collaborations

• Collaboration with University of KwaZulu-Natal – South Africa, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China and UNISC, Brazil as part of BRICS project
• Collaboration with Unidade de Bioenergia e Biorrefinarias and Instituto Superior de Agronomia da Universidade de Lisboa / University of Lisbon School of Agriculture, Lisbon as part of DST collaborative project.
• Collaboration with EOOS Next Austria as part of Bill & Melinda Gates foundation project
• Collboration with Georgia Tech, USA as part of Reinvented Toilet funded by Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
• Collaboration with Caltech USA and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on testing on site electrochemical wastewater treatment and recycling technology.
• Collaboration with German Technical Cooperation, Technical University Hamburg, Harburg and International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Srilanka on Pilot scale studies of Terra Preta Sanitation.
• Collaboration with Prof. Willy Verstraete and Prof. Korneel Rabaey, Ghent University on Reinvent the toilet Challenge project.
• Collaboration with German Technical Cooperation, Technical University, Hamburg and Hamburg Wasser on GTZ-BMU – Waste to Energy project – ongoing. Currently appointed as consultant who will provide scientific back up. Total consultancy cost (Rs 10 lacs)
• Sustainable energy production from solid food waste of a small community – Collaboration with Dr. Michel Torrijos, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, INRA, Narbonne, France. Under this collaboration funded by French Embassy, Vidhya Prabhudesai my PhD student will stay nine months in France to start the characterization of the various fractions of the wastes and to measure the methane potentials. Period : May 2009 – Jan 2010.
• Isotope biogeochemical concepts to characterise the fate of organic chemicals in the environment with Dr.Hans Hermann Richnow, Head, Isotope Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany under bilateral cooperation in Science and Technology funded by International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Period : Jan 2009 – July 2009.

Member of Professional Societies

• American Society for Microbiology
• Society for Applied Microbiology
• Association of Microbiologists of India
• International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society
• International Solid waste Association
• International Water Association
• Biogas Forum India