Satya Narayan Mukhopadhyay completed his B.Sc. Honours in Chemistry from Calcutta University, B.Tech and M.Tech in Food Technology and Biochemical Engineering from Jadavpur University, and Ph.D. from the lndian lnstitute of Technology, Delhi. He started his teaching career at Harcourt Butler Technological lnstitute (HBTI), Kanpur and later at IIT Delhi. A recipient of the JSPS Award and Fulbright Fellowship, he is a Life Fellow at the lndian National Academy of Engineering and the lndian lnstitute of Chemical Engineering, and is a Life Member of the lndian Society for Technical Education. He retired as Professor from IIT Delhi and later as an Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Birla lnstitute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Prof. Mukhopadhyay's publications include Oxygen Responses, Reactivities and Measurements in Biosystems, Process Biotechnology Fundamentals (3 Edns.), Advanced Process Biotechnology, Experimental Process Biotechnology Protocols, Process Biotechnology: Theory and Practice and Food Engineering: Process and Technology . He served as an expert member in many selection committees of DBT/CSIR and different universities/llTs/NITs and Gol and delivered invited talks.