Dr. Shiv Shankar is a Research Scientist in the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, Canada. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at Banaras Hindu University, India, and a Master of Science in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. He obtained Ph.D. in Biotechnology at the University of Pune, India. He has more than 100 publications to his credit with an H-index of 37 and a google scholar citation of more than 4000.

Dr. Shankar is doing research in the field of biodegradable polymers, active packaging, intelligent packaging, high barrier packaging, antimicrobial formulations, food microbiology, food packaging, nanocomposite, nanoparticles, anticancer activity, cell toxicity, wound healing.