Anil Kumar Verma is the principal editor of the proposed book with expertise in the field of sustainable energy and biorefineries-based application of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes from lignocellulosic waste. He completed his Ph.D. in May 2015 from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Assam. The Ph.D. thesis work focused on the carbohydrate-active enzyme glucuronoxylan xylanohydrolase from Clostridium thermocellum. After completing his Ph.D., he received a prestigious DST-SERB National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) grant and joined The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI, New Delhi).