Dr. E. Dilipan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Selvam College of Technology, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India. He has vast experience in the field of Botany including the Marine plants. He is specialized in Botany, Bioinformatics and Marine Biotechnology. He has received DAAD fellowship, for undertaking research in the Institute of Botany, Leibniz University, Germany. He was awarded a National Post-Doctoral Fellow by Department of Science and Technology (SERB). He authored various research papers in Journals and Books. He received Research Excellence Award from Institute of Scholars, Bangalore, Karnataka.