Dr. Shiv Kumari Panda earned her Ph.D. from KIIT University in 2018, following her M.Sc. from Sambalpur University, Odisha, in 2011. She has been serving as an Assistant Professor at Udayanath Autonomous College of Science and Technology, Odisha, since 2018. Dr. S.K. Panda is actively engaged in research, with a primary focus on the synthesis and transformation of waste materials into high-performance biomaterials with novel applications. In recognition of her contributions, she was honoured with the Young Scientist Award by the Government of Odisha in 2019. In the same year, she secured a four-year research grant from the Odisha State Higher Education Council under the Odisha University Research and Innovation Incentivisation Plan (OURIIP). She has published many research articles in various scopus indexed journals. She remains highly active in the research community, contributing as a peer reviewer for leading scientific journals, including Fibers and Polymers (Springer Nature) and ACS Sustainable Chemistry &Engineering (American Chemical Society). Additionally, she has served as a reviewer for the International Conference on Materials Engineering and Manufacturing Systems, published in IOP Science: Materials Science and Engineering.Dr. Visakh P.M. (MSc, MPhil, PhD) is a prolific editor with more than 50 books already published. Currently he is working in the Natural Bioactive Materials Laboratory Department of Bioengineering, Ege University, Bornova/Izmir, Turkey. He was working as Associate Professor in TUSUR University, Tomsk, Russia from 2017 till 2022. He did his Post doc. Research in Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia (2014-2017). He obtained his PhD, MPhil and MSc degrees from School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, kerala, India. He edited 50 books from Scrivener (Wiley), Springer, Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier and more than 25 books in press, (from Wiley, Springer, Royal Society of Chemistry and Elsevier). He has been invited as a visiting researcher in Russia (2014 to 2022), Portugal (2013, 2014), Czech Republic (2012, 2013) Italy (2009, 2012), Argentina (2010) Sweden (2010, 2011, 2012), Switzerland (2010), Spain (2011, 2012), Slovenia (2011), France (2011), Belgium (2012) and Austria (2012) for his research work. He visited 13 countries; He visited 15 universities in Europe. He published 23 publications, 4 reviews and more than 55 book chapters. He has attended and presented more than 28 conferences, he has 3200 citations and his h-index is 27. He acts as guest editor for 4 International Journals.
