Dr. V. K. Gupta is the Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at MITS University, Rajasthan, India. Currently, he is working as a Post Doctoral Research Scientist, at National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. He has completed his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, Faizabad, UP, India in 2009. He has been honored with several awards in his career including prestigious Indian ICAR Senior Research Fellowship, Young Scientist Award-2009 & 2011 and Gold Medal Award-2009. Dr. Gupta is the fellow of International Society of Contemporary Biologist, Society of Applied Biotechnology and Hind Agri-Horticultural Society, India. He has submitted 29 fungal nucleotide sequences to NCBI, USA and deposited 147 fungal strains in different International/National fungal agencies/Institution viz. CABI, UK; NBAIM, Mau, India; IMTECH, Chandigarh, India and ARI, Pune, India. He is the editor/member of 9 International and 2 National journals with 38 International/National research/review publication and 23 book chapters in books published from recognized International/National publishers in his hand. He is the editor/author/internal editorial board member of books/book series from reputed publishers of International fame viz. Elsevier, The Netherlands; Science Publisher, New Hampshire, USA; CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, USA; Springer, Germany; Nova Science Publishers, USA and LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.