Dr. Satya  Eswari Jujjavarapu

Department Bio Technology
Designation Assosciate Professor
Educational Qualification Ph.D.
E-Mail satyaeswarij.bt@nitrr.ac.in
Contact Number 09752135824
Areas of Interest
Bioprocess Modelling and Optimization. Microbial fuel cell process for Waste water treatment, Insilico drug Discovery Peptide based Drugs, Biosurfactants, 
Computational Biology, Bioreactor design, Biohydrogen production, Biosensors, Bioelecrochemistry, Bioremediation, Computational fluid dynamics 
Publications

Awards

Early career research award received from Department of science and technology in 2017, IEI Young Engineer Award-2019, Early career research award., Outstanding Woman by Venus international-2019., DK Best Faculty award-2019., Indian national academy of engineering (INAE) Nominated twice-2018, Indian National Science Academy (INSA)- associate- Nominated-2023, CSIR - Senior research fellow (SRF), awarded 2012, Department of science and technology (DST) - woman scientist award (2010-2013), Neuroscientists. (2026, January 9). Assoc. Prof. Dr. Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu | Evolutionary Neuroscience | Women Researcher Award. https://neuroscientists.org

Ph.D. students: 

6 Completed, 4 full time Ongoing, and 2 with combined. 

Dr.Nisha Suryawanshi: Faculty, Department of Zoology, Gov arts college Sagar, MP. 2021

Dr. Swasti Dhagat: Scientist and coordinator- GYTI awards, Sadbhav SRISTI NPL, SRISTI-2021

Dr.Aditya L Toppo: Assistant professor, Centre for basic science, Ptrsu Raipur. -2023

Dr.Sweta Naik: Guest faculty, Odisha private college. -2023

Dr.Manisha Yadav: Guest faculty, Private college. -2022

Dr.Tukendra Verma – Guest faculty, CG Govt. college -2025

Patents granted:

 Banne, S. S., Jothimurugan, R., Eswari, J. S., Chandrasekhar, K., Deshpande, A. S., Sitre, S. R., Patel, Y. S., & Kannan, V. (2023). Portable biogas plant for home (Indian Design Patent No. 390404-001). Indian Patent Office.

Kumar, T., Dadsena, L., Jujjavarapu, S. E., & Maharana, T., (2025). Portable bio-electrochemical detection laboratory equipment for monitoring antibiotics in wastewater (Indian Patent Application No. 466789-001, filed July 23, 2025). Indian Patent Office.

Publications Organized by Journal Quartile Ranking

Total Publications: 87+ Papers

Q1 JOURNALS (SCI/SCIE/Scopus)

  1. J.Satya Eswari, Anand Mohan and Ch. Venkateswarlu (2013). Optimum culture medium composition for rhamnolipid production by Pseudomonas Aeruginosa AT10 using a novel multiobjective optimization method. Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, 88(2), 271-279. https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb
  2. Eswari Jujjavarapu Satya, Chimmiri Venkateswarlu (2013). Evaluation of kinetic parameters of an anaerobic biofilm reactor treating pharmaceutical industry wastewater by ant colony optimization. Environmental Engineering Science, 30(9), 527-535.
  3. J. Satya Eswari and Kannekanti Kavya (2016). Optimal feed profile for the rhamnolipid kinetic models by using Tabu search: metabolic view point. AMB Express, 2016, 6:116.
  4. Eswari, J. Satya, and Ch Venkateswarlu (2020). Multiobjective Pareto optimization of pharmaceutical product formulation using radial basis function network and non-dominated sorting differential evolution. International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 33(2), 95-122.
  5. Archana Vimal, Jujjavarapu Satya Eswari, Awanish Kumar (2016). Bioprocess modeling for the prediction of therapeutic enzyme l-asparaginase activity in solid state fermentation using multiple linear regression and ANN. International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 8(7).
  6. Eswari, J. Satya, and Sweta Naik (2020). A critical analysis on various technologies and functionalized materials for manufacturing dialysis membranes. Materials Science for Energy Technologies, 3, 116-126.
  7. Swasti Dhagat, Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2021). Green synthesis of bioemulsifier and exopolysaccharides by Brevibacillus borstelensis and process parameters optimization using response surface model, genetic algorithm and NSGA. Journal of Environmental Management, 291, 112667.
  8. Swasti Dhagat, Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2021). Simulated annealing and artificial neural network as optimization tools to enhance yields of bioemulsifier and exopolysaccharides by thermophilic Brevibacillus borstelensis. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(4), 105499.
  9. Swasti Dhagat, Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2022). Utility of lignin-modifying enzymes: a green technology for organic compounds mycodegradation. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 97, 343-358.
  10. Suryawanshi N, Jujjavarapu SE & Ayothiraman S (2019). Marine shell industrial wastes–an abundant source of chitin and its derivatives: constituents, pre-treatment, fermentation, and pleiotropic applications-a revisit. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 16(7), 3877-3898.
  11. Suryawanshi N, Eswari JS (2020). Chitin from seafood waste: Particle swarm optimization and neural network study for the improved chitinase production. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology.
  12. Naik, Sweta, and Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2020). Simultaneous bioelectricity generation from cost-effective MFC and water treatment using various wastewater samples. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27(22), 27383-27393.
  13. Naik, Sweta, and Satya Eswari Jujjavarappu (2021). Self-powered and reusable microbial fuel cell biosensor for toxicity detection in heavy metal polluted water. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(4), 105318.
  14. Naik, Sweta, and Jujjavarapu Satya Eswari (2021). Experimental and validation with neural network time series model of microbial fuel cell bio-sensor for phenol detection. Journal of Environmental Management, 290, 112594.
  15. Naik, Sweta, and Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2021). Enhanced bioelectricity generation by novel biosurfactant producing bacteria in microbial fuel cells. Environmental Technology & Innovation, 23, 101665.
  16. Naik, Sweta, and Jujjavarapu Satya Eswari (2022). Electrical waste management: Recent advances challenges and future outlook. Total Environment Research Themes.
  17. Aditya Lawrence Toppo, Dhagat S and Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2022). Biological aspects of biosurfactant mediated gold nanoparticle synthesis by Brevibacillus borstelensis: A comparative study using CCD-RSM, simulated annealing and genetic algorithm. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering.
  18. Yadav M, Dhagat S, Eswari JS (2020). Emerging strategies on in silico drug development against COVID-19: challenges and opportunities. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 155, 105522.
  19. Yadav, M. and Eswari, J.S. (2022). Modern paradigm towards potential target identification for antiviral (SARS-nCoV-2) and anticancer lipopeptides: A pharmacophore-based approach. Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology.
  20. SE Jujjavarapu, S Dhagat (2019). Evolutionary trends in industrial production of α-amylase. Recent Patents on Biotechnology, 13(1), 4-18.
  21. Eswari, J. S., Majdoubi, J., Naik, S., Gupta, S., Bit, A., Rahimi-Gorji, M., & Saleem, A. (2020). Prediction of stenosis behaviour in artery by neural network and multiple linear regressions. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 1-15.
  22. Kumar, Tukendra, Sweta Naik, and Satya Eswari Jujjavarappu (2021). A critical review on early-warning electrochemical system on microbial fuel cell-based biosensor for on-site water quality monitoring. Chemosphere, 133098.
  23. Kumar, T., & Eswari J, S. (2022). Review and perspectives of emerging green technology for the sequestration of carbon dioxide into value-added products: An intensifying development. ACS Energy and Fuels.
  24. Kumar, T., & Eswari Jujjavarappu, S. (2023). A critical review on an advanced bio-electrochemical system for carbon dioxide sequestration and wastewater treatment. Total Environment Research Themes, 5, 100023.
  25. Kumar, T. and Satya, E.J. (2023). Advances in anode configurations for a microbial fuel cell via a computational fluid dynamics electrochemistry and its experimental validation. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology.
  26. Kumar, T., & Jujjavarapu, S. E. (2023). Carbon dioxide sequestration and wastewater treatment via an innovative self-sustaining algal microbial fuel cell. Journal of Cleaner Production, 415, 137836.
  27. Verma, N., Jujjavarapu, S.E., Mahapatra, C. et al. (2023). Contemporary updates on bioremediation applications of graphene and its composites. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30, 48854–48867.
  28. Jagadeesh Kumar Reddy Mutra, Satya Eswari J, Nikita Verma (2023). Emergence of plant based decellularized natural scaffolds for tissue regeneration: Scaffold from mango peel. ACS Sustainable Technology and Sustainable Chemistry Engineering.
  29. Nikita Verma, Satya Eswari J, Chinmaya Mahapatra (2023). Green sustainable biocomposites: Substitute to plastics with innovative biomaterial fungal mycelium. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering.
  30. Verma, Nikita, J. Satya Eswari, and Chinmaya Mahapatra (2024). Investigating Thermomyces lanuginosus and Purpureocillium lilacinum to produce advanced myco-materials through selective fungal decellularization. Environmental Science: Advances.
  31. Kumar, Tukendra, and Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2025). Smart nanostructured electrodes integrated with microbial fuel cells for wastewater-to-energy conversion and on-site detection of antibiotic in real wastewater. Bioelectrochemistry, 109211.
  32. Dadsena, L., Maharana, T., Jujjavarapu, S.E. (2026). OneWater-Driven Waste-toWatt Innovation: Electroactive Polymer–Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Integrated Energy Production, and Reuse of Wastewater. Environmental Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.123764
  33. Valde, D., Nayak, A. K., Sahu, S., & Jujjavarapu, S. E. (2025). Sustainable biohydrogen production from agrifood wastewater using a MFC‐assisted MEC system: A circular bioelectrochemical approach. Journal of Engineering, 2025(1), 2393431.
  34. Valde, D., Dadsena, L., Kuppam, C., Mohanta, M., Maharana, T., & Jujjavarapu, S. E. (2025). AI‐Driven optimization of waste‐derived nanocomposites for high‐performance microbial fuel cells. Energy Technology, e202500676.
  35. Darshita Valde, Tukendra Verma, Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2025). Advancing wastewater biosensing: Comparative study of pure electroactive microbes for antibiotic and oil detection via microbial fuel cells. Journal of Engineering. (Accepted)
  36. Verma, Nikita, J. Satya Eswari, and Chinmaya Mahapatra (2025). Revolutionizing concrete: Unveiling bio-concrete's advantages and challenges in self-healing through microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, e01465.
  37. Tumar, T., Baghel, R., & Jujjavarapu, S.E. (2026). Microbial fuel cells as a sustainable and eco-friendly technology for microplastic degradation in wastewater: A future perspective. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 237, 270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-025-08932-w

Q2 JOURNALS (SCI/SCIE/Scopus)

  1. Satya Eswari, J and Ch. Venkateswarlu (2016). Dynamic modelling and metabolic flux analysis for optimized production of rhamnolipids. Chemical Engineering Communications, 203, 326–338.
  2. Seema Patel, Shadab Ahmed, J Satya Eswari (2015). Therapeutic cyclic lipopeptides mining from microbes: Strides and hurdles. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 31(8), 1177-1193.
  3. JS Eswari, M Anand, Chimmiri Venkateswarlu (2016). Optimum culture medium composition for lipopeptide production by Bacillus subtilis using response surface model-based ant colony optimization. Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Science, 41(1), 55–65.
  4. J. Satya Eswari and Neha Chandrakar (2016). Artificial neural network analysis of DNA-microarray based lymph node negative breast cancer. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 33(4), 1318-1324.
  5. J. Satya Eswari, Dr. Ch. Venkateswarlu (2016). Multiobjective simultaneous optimization of biosurfactant process medium by integrating differential evolution with artificial neural networks. Indian Journal of Chemical Technology, 23(5), 335-344.
  6. Piyush Parkhey, Pratima Gupta, Satya Eswari J (2017). Optimization of cellulase production from isolated cellulolytic bacterium: Comparison between genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and response surface methodology. Chemical Engineering Communications, 204(1), 28-38.
  7. Eswari, J. Satya, and Ch Venkateswarlu (2012). Optimization of culture conditions for Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells production using differential evolution. International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4(1), 465-470.
  8. J. Satya Eswari & Shadab Ahmad (2016). Triple objective optimization of cytotoxic potency of human carcinoma cell lines of Ulva fasciata Delile (a marine macro alga) using non-sorting genetic algorithm. International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Research, 8(9).
  9. Swasti Dhagat, Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu (2021). Biorefinery system for the production of thermostable exopolysaccharide by a novel thermophile Brevibacillus borstelensis MK878423 and its study on impact of glucose utilization. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery.
  10. Satya Eswari Jujjavarapu, Swasti Dhagat (2018). In silico discovery of novel ligands for antimicrobial lipopeptides for computer-aided drug design. Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 10(2), 129-141.
  11. Satya E Jujjavarapu, Swasti Dhagat, Vinay Kurrey (2018). Identification of novel ligands for therapeutic lipopeptides: Daptomycin, surfactin and polymyxin. Current Drug Targets, 19(13), 1589-1598.
  12. J Satya Eswari, Swasti Dhagat, Preeti Mishra (2018). Biosurfactant assisted silver nanoparticle synthesis: A critical analysis of its drug design aspects. Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 9, 045007.
  13. Suryawanshi N, Eswari JS (2021). Shrimp shell waste as a potential raw material for biorefinery—a revisit. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery.
  14. Suryawanshi N, A. Seenivasan, Jujjawarapu SE (2022). New insights of carbon catabolite repression and kinetic modeling for the growth of T. lanuginosus. Chemical Engineering Technology.
  15. Eswari, J. S., and M. Yadav (2019). New perspective of drug discovery from herbal medicinal plants: Andrographis paniculata and Bacopa monnieri (terpenoids) and novel target identification against Staphylococcus aureus. South African Journal of Botany, 124, 188-198.
  16. Yadav, M. and Jujjavarapu, S.E. (2021). Neural network methodology for the identification and classification of lipopeptides based on SMILES annotation. Computers, 10(6), 74.
  17. Toppo, A.L., Jujjavarapu, S.E. (2022). New insights for integration of nano particle with microfluidic systems for sensor applications. Biomedical Microdevices, 24, 13.
  18. Jujjavarapu SE, Mishra A (2025). Unravelling the role of tyrosine and tyrosine hydroxylase in Parkinson's disease: Exploring nanoparticle-based gene therapies. CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets, 24(5), 325-339.
  19. Valde, D., Kumar, T., & Jujjavarapu, S. E. (2026). Real-time sensing approaches and antibiofilm strategies for biofilm-associated infections: Advances and perspectives on medical devices and clinical contexts. Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  20. Dadsena, L., Maharana, T., Jujjavarapu, S.E. (2026), Artificial Intelligence-Integrated Microbial Fuel Cell: A Self-Sustained Biosensor for Predictive Heavy Metal Toxicity Detection" has been accepted for publication in Fuel Cells

Q3 JOURNALS (SCI/SCIE/Scopus) 56-72

 

Q4 JOURNALS (SCI/Scopus) 73-76

SCOPUS INDEXED JOURNALS (Not Quartile-Classified) 77-86

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS -Journal Publications (Scopus/Other) 87-93

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Note: The document mentions 35 international conference publications. These would need to be listed separately from journal publications.

SUMMARY BY QUARTILE

  • Q1 Journals: 37 papers (SCI/SCIE/Scopus)
  • Q2 Journals: 18 papers (SCI/SCIE/Scopus)
  • Q3 Journals: 17 papers (SCI/SCIE/Scopus)
  • Q4 Journals: 4 papers (SCI/Scopus)
  • Scopus Indexed: 10 papers (not quartile-classified)
  • Conference Publications: 35 papers

Total Research Papers: 87+ publications

 

Other Info.

MTech :IIT Kharagpur

Ph.D.   : IIT Hyderabad/IICT Hyderabad

MBA     : IICT Lucknow

BTech students guided: 60

Short-term course conducted 

One Week TEQIP-II Sponsored Short Term Training Program on Soft Computing and Intelligent Techniques in Science and Engineering (SCI-TSE)From September 30th to October 4th 2016.

One Week TEQIP-II Sponsored Short Term Training Program on “Bioprocess Development, Reactor Design and Analysis" From January 9th to January 13th 2017.

Real Time Hands-On in Bio-signal Acquisition and Processing Using Advanced AI and ML Tools” sponsored by Anusandhan National Research Foundation (formerly SERB), Government of India from 25 August to 29 August, 2024, satya eswari and Bikesh kumar singh.

One-week Short Term Skill Development Training Program on "Fermentation Technology" conducted by Department of Biotechnology (Duration: 9 – 13 February 2026 (5 days))

R & D PROJECTS

Department of science and technology -2010-2013 completed -22 lakhs- Title: Experimental, Modeling and Optimization studies on Biosurfactants-

Chattishgarh Counsel of Science and Technology -2016-2018-4 lakhs-on going-Title: Computer-aided drug design of peptide based drugs: lipopeptides 

Department of science and technology -2017-2020 Ongoing-43lakhs- Title: Experimental, Mathematical and Kinetic Modeling of Microbial Fuel Cell From the Waste Water. 

Stacked bio hydrogen production using a novel low-cost plant scaffold membrane with online hydrogen monitoring using distributed fiber Bragg grating. Department of Science and Technology (date November 2024, DST)

Experience 

16-08-2013 to till now at NIT Raipur as Assistant Professor

13-06-2010 to 13-06-2013 as woman scientist at IICT Hyderabad

Laboratories taken : BTech-Biotechnology

Mechanical unit operations and Bioinformatics

Administrative activies

Convenor of Departmental academic committee (DAC), Department of Biotechnology, NIT Raipur. 

 BITSA- Faculty incharge.

Member of Institute Entrepreneur cell

Member ship

Indian institute of chemical engineers life member-

The Indian science congress association, Kolkata, India, life member-L25054

Indian institute of engineer’s, Kolkata, India Associate member: Membership id: AM155982-9

Biotechnology Research society life member, NIIST, Trivandrum, India: Membership id:  LM 1800

Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI 4804-2019)

Foreign visits

Malaysia- Kaulalumpur

Australia-Sydney

Singapore

Software skills

Matlab, Shrodinger, C Language, Design expert.