Editor Biography Dr. H. C. Ananda Murthy, Ph.D., FRSC-UK, is currently working as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Applied Sciences, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Morobe Province, 411, Papua New Guinea. He is also serving as the adjunct professor at Saveetha University, India. He worked at various prestigious universities in India, Tanzania and Ethiopia for the last 25 years. He has taught various chemistry courses to UG, PG, and Ph.D. students of the universities. Prof. Ananda has published more than 200 articles in the journals of international repute (H-index=32, i-10 index =91). He has authored 12 books, 24 book chapters & 6 compendia. He has total of 5 patents to his credit. He has recently received Excellent researcher award at Asia’s Science, technology and research awards congress held at Tirchy, Tamilnadu, India in July 2023. Dr. Velumani Subramaniam, Ph.D., presently working as a Professor in Texas A & M University, USA. After his post-graduation from in 1986 started the career as a teacher and subsequently garnering Ph.D. in 1998, now raised to Teacher/Researcher/Administrator. In pursuit of achieving laurels and vying with novel ideas, presently working on novel micro and nanostructured materials for harvesting renewable energy and biomedical applications. He has published more than 140 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and serving as Editor (JSME) and edited about 11 special issues as guest editor. Serving as editorial board member and peer-reviewed for various reputed international journals. Served as visiting professor in University of Twenty, Holland; Universite du Maine, France; and SKKU, South Korea on various occasions. Prof. Mika Sillanpää, Ph.D., As a professor with over 20 years' scholarly research, teaching, and supervision experiences, has engaged in synergistic collaboration with over 100 research partners from the world’s leading laboratories in six continents. Currently, he is an Editor in Inorganic Chemistry Communications (Elsevier) and Field Chief Editor in Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry. Having an h-index of 107, his publications have been cited over 55000 times (Google Scholar). Mika Sillanpää has published more than 1000 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. He has successfully managed as a principal investigator substantial funding of over 30 million euros in highly competitive calls for research funding such as the EU Framework Programmes and Structural Funds, Business Finland, the Academy of Finland, Foundations and industrial partners. He has supervised 60 PhDs and been a reviewer in over 250 academic journals, many of which are top-ranked in their fields. Dr. R. Balachandran is presently working as a Professor in Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia. He has vast experience in teaching various Electronics and Communication Engineering courses for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels over 3 decades. He has taught in different institutions and universities in India and Malaysia. In his research areas so far, he has secured 6 research funds in Malaysia and Ethiopia as project leader / principal investigator and one Technology Transfer Project Grant in Ethiopia. He has published six patents in U.K. / India / Australia, a book, a book chapter and published over 40 research papers in peer reviewed international journals and presented papers at USA, UK, Malaysia, India and Iran international conferences. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers, India (FIE), Chartered Engineer from U.K. [CEng. (U.K.)] and India [CEng. (India)]; Senior member of IEEE (USA). 5. Dr. Gurumurthy Hegde Ph.D., is currently working as a Director at Centre for Advanced research and Development and also as Professor in the Department of Chemistry, CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India. He has guided 6 Ph.D. students & 6 MSc students for their respective degrees and also guided 4 post-doctoral fellows. He has published over 220 research papers in national/international journals & holds 20 patents. His papers are well cited with an h-index of 33. He has delivered more than 200 invited talk, guest lectures, plenary talks, keynote address at various conferences, various countries. He got more than 60 International awards for his research from USA, South Korea, Japan, Germany, UK, Malaysia, India etc. He has written more than 10 books and book chapters. His areas of interest include Nano Science & Technology, Materials Science, liquid crystal displays, waste to wealth technologies. He is also the founder of start-up company named Adindistech Pvt Ltd.
