Ranga Rao Ambati

Ambati RangaRao is a Senior Scientist & Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Vignan`s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research (Deemed to be University), Andhra Pradesh, India. Dr. Ranga Rao holds Bachelors and Masters degree from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh India and Ph.D degree from University of Mysore. He started his research career in 2004 as research assistant at the Department of Plant Cell Biotechnology, Council of Scientific and Industrial...See more

Ambati RangaRao is a Senior Scientist & Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Vignan`s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research (Deemed to be University), Andhra Pradesh, India. Dr. Ranga Rao holds Bachelors and Masters degree from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh India and Ph.D degree from University of Mysore. He started his research career in 2004 as research assistant at the Department of Plant Cell Biotechnology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, India under the supervision of Dr. G. A. Ravishankar and Dr. R. Sarada. He was awarded Senior Research Fellow of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi in the year 2007. His Ph.D work at CFTRI focused on Production of astaxanthin from cultured green alga Haematococcus pluvialis and its biological activities. He worked extensively on process optimization of algal biomass production; mass culture of various algal species in raceway ponds and photobioreactors; downstream processing of algal metabolites and evaluation of their possible nutraceutical applications in in vitro and in vivo models.Further Dr. Ranga Rao worked as Lead Scientist in Algal Technologies, Carot Labs Pvt Ltd-India; Postdoctoral Research Associate in Laboratory of Algal Research and Biotechnology, Arizona State University-USA under the supervision of Prof. Milton Sommerfeld and Prof. Qiang Hu; Visiting Assistant Professor in Food Science and Technology Program, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University, United International college, China under the supervision of Prof. Bo Lei; Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor Grade) in Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Malaysia under the guidance of Prof. Phang Siew-Moi. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications; 50 International/national conferences/symposia/invited talks, 10 chapters in books. His research citations exceed 2180 with h-index (16) and i10-index (20) as Google Scholar. He has delivered lectures at international/national conferences/symposia in USA, Canada, Brazil, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Oman. He has edited two books (CRC Press, USA) as co-editor namely Handbook of Algal Technologies and Phytochemicals: Volume-I Food, Health and Nutraceutical Applications; and Handbook of Algal Technologies and Phytochemicals: Volume II Phycoremediation, Biofuels and Global Biomass Production. He was selected for Junior Scientist of the Year Award (2015) by National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi, India; honored TWAS-Young Affiliate (2014) by Regional Office of East South-East Asia and the Pacific Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China; received Young Scientist Award (2014) at the World Food Congress by International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST), Canada; Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship Award (2010) by Gordon Research Conferences, USA. He is an associate fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (2019) Government of Andhra Pradesh, India and also fellow of the Society of Applied Biotechnology (2013), India. He has received research grants and travel grant fellowship as both international and national awards, under Young Scientist schemes. He is also serving as editorial board member and reviewer for reputed international and national journals. See less