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Dr. Meenu Hans

Guru Nanak Dev University, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, University of Sao Paulo

ORCID iD 0000-0001-5455-9238
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Dr. Meenu Hans is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. She has obtained her Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna University, Srinagar, Garhwal, Uttrakhand in year 2012, and Ph.D in Microbiology from Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy in year 2022. Dr. Hans has also worked as a Visiting Scientist at Institute of Physics of São Carlos (IFSC), University of São Paulo, São Carlos, São Paulo (Brazil). She has more than 8 years of research experience in anaerobic digestion, fermentation technology, biomass pretreatment & bioprocessing, enzymatic hydrolysis and integrated biorefinery of biomass for bioethanol, biogas, biohythane and xylitol production. She has 2 filed patents and 15 published articles in peer reviewed journals, books and scientific magazines in her credit. She also has research interests and experience in lignin biorefinery into valuable chemicals such as vanillin, syringic acid and syringaldehyde along with hydrolytic and ligninolytic enzymes.

Employment

  • Guru Nanak Dev University Assistant Professor
    2023 - Present
  • Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy Research Associate
    2022 - 2023
  • University of Sao Paulo Visiting scientist
    2018 - 2019
  • Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy Research fellow
    2016 - 2021
  • Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy Project assistant
    2015 - 2016
  • Pushpa Gujral science City Science instructor
    2013 - 2015

Education

  • Guru Nanak Dev University Ph.D
    2017 - 2022

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (3)

  • Biohythane production in two-stage anaerobic digestion system
    International hydrogen energy 2019
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  • A Review on Bioprocessing of Paddy Straw to Ethanol Using Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation
    Process biochemistry 2019
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  • Bioethanol production from acid pretreated sugarcane bagasse using thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus NIRE-K3.2.
    International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology for Waste Conversion (ETBWC)-2017 2017
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