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Prof. PRADHAN, Nirakar

Associate Professor

(+852) 3411 7747
(+852) 3411 7747
RRS 831

Education

Ph.D. (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)

M.Eng. (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)

B.Tech. (Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, India)

Academic Staff
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RECENT RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
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RECENT RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

  1. Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU). PHAsys BioTech (April 2026–Mar 2027).
  2. Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF). Accelerating food‐waste digestate maturation through microbiome analysis and de-novo process optimization. (Jul 2025–Jun 2026).
  3. Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF). Unlocking the Protein Degradation Potential during Anaerobic Co-digestion of Food Waste and Livestock Manure: Insights from Microbial Communities. (Jul 2024–Dec 2025).
  4. Research Grants Council (RGC) - General Research Fund (GRF). Constraint-based genome-scale computational modeling of human enterotype-associated gut commensal metabolism: Focus on the systems metabolic picture of bacterium Prevotella copri. (Nov 2022–Oct 2025).
  5. HKBU (Inno Realization Fund)-HKSTP Co-Ideation Program). PHA biopolyesters for sustainable packaging. (Aug 2025–Jul 2026)