Dr. Bhupendra Pushkar was born in Mumbai, India. Since 2008 he is working as Assistant professor at University of Mumbai, India. He pursued his B.Sc. in Microbiology in 2000. He has obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology in 2002 from University of Mumbai. He pursued his further studies and completed his Doctorate degree in 2010. His area of research broadly includes environmental pollution remediation using biological science. He is currently working on heavy metal bioremediation, PAH bioremediation, plastic degradation, plant tissue culture etc. He is actively involved in the bioremediation research work and trying to develop system for river water cleaning. He has published various papers in national as well as international journals and currently guiding three research students. He is Co-Editor in Chief of a journal and reviewer in many journals.