Dr. Kisan M. Kodam is Professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. Dr. Kodam’s research interests are focused on environmental biotechnology. In particular, his research team is working on biodegradation of organic pollutants, arsenic and metal bioremediation. He has 27 years of teaching and research experiences and he has supervised 16 students for their doctoral studies and mentored five postdoctoral fellows. He has published around 100 research publications and 4 book chapters. His citations are 2704 with a h-index of 29. He is also working on biotransformation reactions for synthesis of natural products and cytotoxicity analysis. He has reported two novel bacterial species, namely Alishewanella solinquinati and Microvirga indica isolated from dyes and metal contaminated soils, respectively. His research work has been presented in many international conferences. He has been awarded as Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, India for his valuable contributions in the field of environmental biotechnology.