Dr. Velmurugan is a Professor at the Centre for Material Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, India. He has around 11 years of research and 3 years of teaching experience, in India and South Korea. His current research areas of interest are: Bionanomaterials, Quorum sensing, Biopigments, Probiotics, and Nanomaterials. He has worked as Assistant professor and Research professor in India and Chonbuk National university, South Korea. He serves as an editorial board member in: Frontiers in Microbiology (managing Guest Editor), Industrial Crops and Products (Elsevier), Microbiological Research, Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, EC Microbiology, Journal of Nanomaterials, International Journal of Modern Science and technology, and SF Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering.