Dr Kaushik Bhattacharjee is a scientist in the field of Microbiology in the Division of Life Sciences at the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, India. Dr Kaushik Bhattacharjee received his PhD in microbiology from the North-Eastern Hill University of India, by conducting research into the inter-disciplinary field of microbial diversity in extreme environments, pharmaceutical microbiology, and medicinal chemistry. His post-doctoral training was at the Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University of India and at IASST, Guwahati, India. He has so far contributed over 20 publications in journals of high repute and has published about six book chapters. He also serves as an editorial board member and invited journal reviewer for many highly reputed journals with publishing groups, such as Springer Nature, Elsevier, PLoS, Taylor & Francis. He was presented with the Outstanding Reviewer Award from Elsevier for the year 2018. He also serves as a certified mentor at Publons Academy, Clarivate Analytics, USA. His broad area of research interests includes, environmental microbiology, and pharmaceutical microbiology.