Academia: 14 Years

1 Year of PG research at AIB, Amity University

• Industrial Waste Water Treatment
• Environmental Biotechnology

Faculty of Biostatistics and research methodology at KCDS, Bangalore

REVA University, 2023.

• Fermentation Technology
• Waste water treatment
• Biostatistics
• Food Process technology

Distillery Spent Wash Treatment

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• Post-Graduation – M.Tech. (Biotechnology) Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida-201303, UP, India, 2009-2011.
  Post Graduate Diploma in Food Safety And Quality Management (PGDFSQM), IGNOU, New Delhi, 2020- 2011.
• Under-Graduation – B.E. (Biotechnology), Department of Biotechnology, BITM, Bellary, Karnataka Affiliated to VTU, Balagavi, 2005-2009.

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• Biostatistics
• Bioreactor design concepts

Ethical committee member at KCDS, Bangalore

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• Journal publications (Only Scopus indexed)
  1. Ishwar Chandra, N Ramesh, A Upadhyay, Decolourisation of Distillery Spent Wash under continuous mode, Indian Journal Of Environment Protection, 40 (7), July 2020. pp. 717- 722 (Scopus, Ulrich, CAS, ICI, UGC).
  2. Chandra, I, Upadhyay, A, Ramesh, N., Mixture Design Using Low-Cost Adsorbent Materials for Decolourisation of Biomethanated Distillery Spent Wash in Continuous Packed Bed Column, Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability. Springer, Singapore 2020. pp. 607-621 SCOPUS indexed and UGC Recognized).
  3. Ishwar Chandra, N Ramesh, A Upadhyay, Physical and Biochemical Assessment of Sugarcane Bagasse (Saccharum Officinarum), International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE), 8 (12), October, 2019, pp. 165-168 (SCOPUS indexed and UGC Recognized).
  4. Ishwar Chandra, Saxena Abha, Bandyopadhyay K.K, Saxena Shruti, Prajapati Priya, Jain Prachi, Dhawan Shubha, Bioethanol Production By Zymomonas mobilis MTCC No. 2427 Using Orange Peels As Low Cost Substrates, International Journal of ChemTech Research, 5(6), Oct-Dec 2013, pp- 2787-2792. (SCOPUS indexed and UGC Recognized)
• Conference presentations/publications (Full length papers)
  1. Ishwar Chandra, Chethana R. C., Sahana L., Studies on decolourisation of biomethanated distillery spent wash using continuous packed bed, International conference on sustainable energy and environment, BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla, Goa Campus, 8th to 10th March 2025.
  2. Ishwar Chandra, N. Ramesh, Anima Upadhyay, Preperation, Characterization and Adsorption Properties of Black Cotton Soil, Sand Particles and Sugarcane Bagasse for Environmental Applications, National conference on climate resilience and environmentally sustainable technologies, NITK Surathkal, Karnataka, 28th February 2025.
  3. Ishwar Chandra, N Ramesh, A Upadhyay, Qualitative studies on colour removal from distillery effluent using low-cost adsorbent materials under static batch mode, Research Journal of Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences, Special Issue of NCCWLS 2019, pp. 475-481 (Publications).
  4. Ishwar Chandra, N Ramesh, A Upadhyay, Studies On Decolourisation Of Distillery Effluent Using Microbial Consortium Under Static -Batch Mode And Agitation Batch Mode, Special Issue of NCCWLS 2019, pp 288-295 (Publications).
  5. Supriya S Doijode, Sreedhar Reddy, Ishwar Chandra, Physico-Chemical Charecterisation Of Distillery Yeast Sludge (Dys) And Utilizing It For Enhancing Soil Quality, Special Issue of NCCWLS 2019, pp 296-300 (Publications).
  6. Poster Presentation at All India Seminar on Clean Technologies scheduled on 29th & 30th Nov 2016. Seminar conducted by the National Design and Research Forum, the Institution of Engineers (India) at BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore.
  7. Paper presentation in a Two-Day UGC sponsored National Conference on Phytochemicals and Functional Foods: Current Situation and Future Prospects (PFFCSFP′ 2015), 20th –21st February 2015 at JSS Mysore.
  8. Presented a paper at International Conference on Green technology on environmental pollution prevention and control, from September 27 – 29th, 2014, organized by NIT Trichy.
  9. Presented a poster at National level symposium BIOGALAXIA on 17th October 2014, organized by Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
  10. Paper presentation at 2-Day National Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Biology: Overview on 25th -26th October, 2013 at Teresian College, Mysore.
  11. Paper presentation in Two-day National Conference on “New Opportunities and Challenges in Microbial Research” form 5-6th September at Bharthidasan University, Tiruchirappalli.
  12. Student –Industry Interection programme INCYTE’09, Amity University, 2009.
• Professional Memberships- Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA).

• Past Funding

1. Guided the SPP-UG-“Decolourization of Distillery effluent Using packed bed of Modified Soil”.
2. Guided the SPP-UG-“Green synthesis of copper nanoparticles using kale and lettuce leaf extracts to study in-vitro cell cyto-toxicity effects on mcf-7 and hela human cancer cell lines”
3. Guided the SPP-“Utilization of groundnut shells as a substrate for cultivation of different edible mushroom”.
4. Guided the SPP-UG- “Decolourization Of Distillery Effluent Using Modified Soil”.
5. Guided the SPP-PG-Degradation of phenol from coke oven effluent of Jindal steel plant of Bellary district”.

• Waste to energy: microbial fuel cell a novel approach to generate bio-electricity, I Chandra, Int J adv Biotechnol Bioinf 1, 33-40, 2012.
• Bioethanol production by Zymomonas mobilis MTCC No. 2427 using orange peels as low cost substrates, I Chandra, S Abha, KK Bandyopadhyay, S Shruti, P Priya, J Prachi, Int J ChemTech Res 5 (6), 2787-92,2013.
• Mixture Design Using Low-Cost Adsorbent Materials for Decolourisation of Biomethanated Distillery Spent Wash in Continuous Packed Bed Column, I Chandra, A Upadhyay, N Ramesh, Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability, 607-621,2020.
• Decolourisation of Distillery Spent Wash on the Background of Various Bio-remediation Strategies: A Review SS Ishwar Chandra, K.K Bandyopadhyay, International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 7, Issue 1, January 2018
• Melanoidin: a major pollutant from distillery effluent, I Chandra, AGS Pruthvi, Everyman’s Science, Vol. L No. 4, Oct 15-Nov15, p-257.
• Isolation and screening of biosurfactant producing bacteria from polluted lake, P Jain, A Saxena, I Chandra, B Borah, J Jemila, International Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Published online on August 12 2014.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Life member of The Indian Science Congress Association(ISCA)

Honours & Achievements

• Paper Presentation: 7
• Poster Presentation: 3
• Publications: International: 5, National: 1
• Fdp: 6, Workshops:3, Conferences: 7
• Short Term Course-4