Dr Rajeev Ravindran has recently joined the Circular Bioeconomy Research Group (CircBio) at the Centre for Applied Bioscience Research. Rajeev has joined the Centre for Applied Bioscience Research as a Project Officer and will contribute to a number of on-going EU funded projects. Rajeev was previously employed as a Post Doctoral Researcher at University College Dublin working on macroalgae, a Senior Demonstrator in Technical University Dublin and an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology Jalandhar in India. Rajeev has a PhD in Food Science and Environmental Health and was awarded a Fosraigh postgraduate scholarship by TU Dublin to pursue his PhD studies in 2015.