Seiko Jose PhD is a scientist, working at ICAR-Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar, Rajasthan, India. He has over 17 years’ experience in textiles including time spent in industry and academia. His industrial experience is focused on wet processing of cotton, silk, and linen processing units. For the last 8 eight years of his research career, he has worked with a range of natural fibres such as, wool, jute, pineapple leaf fibre, coir, flax, and ramie. He has contributed to 30 research papers and 9 book chapters. His major research areas are extraction and characterization of natural fibre, textile dyeing and finishing, eco-friendly textile processing, natural fibre composites, and natural dyes. Professor Sabu Thomas is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University. He is a Senior Professor of Christ University, Bangalore, India. He is also a visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. He is the Chairman of the TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. The H index of Professor Thomas is 163 and he has more than 133,000 citationsDr. Firoz Babu Kadumudi (PhD) is a researcher for the Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. He obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry from Bharathidasan University, India, in 2014. He holds more than 15 years of scientific expertise in natural polymers, nanomaterials and nanocomposites. His research is focused on developing polymer nanocomposites for a variety of applications, such as, flexible electronics, wearable sensor for healthcare monitoring, and energy storage. He has published more than 35 articles, patented 3 technologies, and published a book chapter. His research has been published in journals such as Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, and Advanced Sciences.
