Sekar Raju is working as a Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. His current research interests are i) Microbial source tracking of fecal pollution in watersheds, ii) Antibiotic resistant bacteria and resistance genes in aquatic environments, iii) Microplastics in environments and degradation potential of microbes, iv) Impact of urbanization on microbial diversity-ecosystem function and v) Microbial biofilms.