Dr. Richa Arora is serving as Microbiologist in the Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. She is having research experience in integrated biorefineries, waste valorization and food fermentations. She has been awarded with Young Scientist Awards at national level by AMI and MBSI, International Travel Support by DST-SERB to United States, Research Fellowship by DRDO, SSS-NIRE Bio-Energy Promotion Fellowship by SSS-NIBE, Shri Puran Anand Adlakha medal by PAU. She has filed 1 patent and published over 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and papers in conference proceedings. She is also serving as reviewer of many peer reviewed journals.