Dr. Lalita Ledwani is working as Professor of Chemistry and Director, School of Basic Sciences at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Her areas of research interest are natural products, polymer surface modification techniques, green nano-materials, wastewater treatment. She is recipient of Research Grant Award 2015 from KWEF, Japan and also received financial support for research projects from different funding agencies namely DST, Govt of India; DST, Govt. of Rajasthan; DBT, Govt of India and UGC, Govt. of India. Dr. Ledwani has more than thirty research manuscripts published in reputed peer reviewed journals and books, delivered around two dozen invited/expert lectures besides over forty five research papers in conferences and edited one book. She is guiding UG, PG, Ph.D and post-doctoral students. Dr. Ledwani is associated with various national and international professional bodies as fellow, life member, or member. Dr. Ledwani has also organized various national and international academic events in a lead role. Dr. Jitendra S. Sangwai is currently working as an Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Program, Department of Ocean Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He has received many awards, such as National Award for Technology Innovation from the Govt. of India, Young Faculty Recognition Award, and Institute Research and Development Award for excellence in teaching and research from IIT Madras, Distinguished Faculty of Petroleum Engineering of The South Asia and Pacific Region from the Society and Petroleum Engineers, and others. Dr. Sangwai’s research interests are in the field of nanotechnology applications for oil and gas industry, gas hydrates, enhanced oil recovery and flow assurance. He gained industrial and research experience in an upstream oil and gas industry at Schlumberger dealing with flow assurances issues, and on several commercial projects on reservoir fluid characterizations. He published over 90 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has an h index of 22 with close to 1400 citations according to Google scholar. He has worked on the use of nanoparticles and their emulsions for oil recovery applications, drilling fluid design and for hydrate storage. His published work has been cited by several researchers.
