Mohd Shabbir is Assistant Professor at Department of Applied Sciences, CGC university Mohali, Punjab, India. Prior to this, he had been working as a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Professor Xiaogang Luo at School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China. He worked there on regenerated cellulose materials for environmental remediation, sensing, and biomedical applications. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor in Sanskriti University Mathura, NIET, and GLBITM Greater Noida. He got his doctorate degree in the field of natural dyes application on textiles from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in 2017. He has published several peer-reviewed scientific research articles of repute and six edited books with international publishers. Biopolymers, cellulose materials, biomaterials for adsorption and catalysis, wastewater treatment, and functional textiles are the current research interests of him.Annu serves as Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea. Besides, she is an honorary Assistant Professor in Department of Science and Engineering in Novel Global Community Education Foundation, Australia. Dr Annu secured her doctoral degree in Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi. She has gained further research experience as Research Associate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has authored many scientific research articles in international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters with publishers of international repute. She has edited six books with Elsevier, Wiley and Taylor & Francis. She is an active member of professionally societies like ACS, KSME, APA and IAAM. Her research focusses on fabrication and modification of sustainable bionanocomposites, biomaterials, green synthesis of nanoparticles, hybrid nanomaterials, modification in biopolymers and composite nanomaterials for their applications in biomedical, food packaging, nutraceuticals, energy storage devices, biosensors, textiles and environmental sustainability.