Devinder Singh Chahal was born in 1932 and received BSc and MSc degrees from the Punjab University, Chandigarh. He worked for his PhD program at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill, USA. He was a Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India, Fulbright Fellowship in 1974 at the Department of Food Science and Chemical Engineering, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and then visiting scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 1982 he moved to the Institut Armand-Frappier, Université du Québec, Laval, Québec, and retired as a Professor of Industrial Microbiology in 1996. His work is on using cellulosic waste materials to produce food, feed, and fuel. He is the inventor of “Solid state Fermentation” to produce cellulases, which has been quoted by many scientists (350 + 89) worldwide. Since 1999, he has been the Founder and President of the Institute for Understanding Sikhism and the Editor-in-Chief of Understanding Sikhism: The Research Journal, a Member of the Advisory Committee of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Study Centre at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, since 2011, and a member of World Sikh Council, UK. He has been one of the 100 Topmost Influential Sikhs of the World from 2012 to 2016 as a writer. He was honored by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), Amritsar, India, in 2004 and the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), New Delhi, on Khalsa Fateh Divas on March 8-9, 2014.
Professor Dr. Devinder Singh Chahal
President, Institute for Understanding Sikhism
4418 Rue Martin-Plouffe
Laval, Québec, Canada H7W 5L9
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.iuscanada.com
