Asis Patnaik Editor

Dr. Rajkishore Nayak is currently working as Associate Professor (Fashion Enterprise) at the School of Communication and Design, RMIT University, Vietnam. He completed his PhD from the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University, Australia. He has around 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and industry related to fashion and textiles in India, Australia, and Vietnam. He published about 120 peer-reviewed papers in national and international journals. He has authored 4 books and edited 8 books relating to the recent trends in fashion and textiles. He has also published 30 book chapters and 20 conference papers in fashion and textiles. His research interest includes sustainable fashion and textiles, circular economy, waste management, advanced manufacturing, and social media marketing in fashion. Dr. Asis Patnaik is working as acting Head of Clothing and Textile Technology Department in Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Bellville Campus, Cape Town, South Africa. He is actively involved in the teaching, research and development of textiles and technical textile-based materials suitable for manufacturing, automotive, medical, building and footwear industries. He has published more than 80 papers, books, book chapters and conference papers. He has also developed two technologies for filtration, building and automotive industries. He is a regular reviewer of engineering book proposals from the leading publishers, research funding proposal reviewer from various funding agencies, as well as examiner of PhD theses. He was the recipient of several international awards including Textile Institutes Outstanding Young Scientist Paper Award in 2008 and Outstanding Contribution by an Individual award by the CSIR, South Africa in 2013. He is a NRF (National Research Foundation) rated established researcher in South Africa. He is a voting member of the ASTM standardisation committee on Textiles (D13). He has supervised several PhD and Masters students and hosting two-post doctoral research fellows. Majority of his research works are funded by the industries and he has a track record of securing large industry funding for various projects.