Professor Devinder Singh Chahal was Professor and Head of Department of Microbiology, 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 Professor of Industrial Microbiology in 1996. His work is on the utilization of waste cellulosic materials into food, feed, and fuel. He is the inventor of ‘solid state formation’ for production of celluases, which has been quoted by many scientists (312 + 84) throughout the world. See Google Scholar Devinder Singh Chahal.
Since 1999, he has been the Founder and the President of the Institute for Understanding Sikhism and the Editor-in-Chief of Understanding Sikhism: The Research Journal, a Member of 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 Top Most Influential Sikhs of the World from 2012 to 2016 as a writer. He was honored by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (or SGPC; ‘Supreme Gurdwara Management Committee’), Amritsar in 2004, and by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC, New Delhi on Khalsa Fateh Divas on March 8–9, 2014). DSGMC is an autonomous organisation which manages Gurdwaras in the state of Delhi, India.
