Dr. Ramesh C. Ray is an agriculture and food microbiologist, author, and editor. He is a former principal scientist (Microbiology) and head of the ICAR–Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (Regional Centre), Bhubaneswar, India. He has more than 40 years of research experience in agriculture, food, and industrial microbiology; published 140 research and review papers in national and international journals, as well as 70 books chapters; edited/co-edited 24 books published by leading publishers like Springer, CRC, and Elsevier; co-authored three books; and received more than 7500 citations. He was a visiting professor/scientist at several universities and research institutes in the USA, Brazil, France, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam, and consultant to International Potato Center (Lima, Peru) on sweet potatoes. He is a distinguished Fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and National Academy of Biological Sciences, India.