Gurumurthy Hegde Editor

Anitha Varghese obtained her PhD Degree from Mangalore University, Karnataka, India in the year 2007, under the supervision of Dr AMA Khader. Her PhD work was concerned with sensing of heavy metal ions in various alloy steels, minerals, biological, soil and water samples. She started her career in CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru in the year 2008. Her current research interests include electrocatalysis for organic transformations and developing electrochemical sensors for biomolecules, flavonoids, pollutants, and food adulterants. Presently she is working as a Professor.

Gurumurthy Hegde obtained his PhD in the year 2007 from Centre for Nanomaterials and Soft Matter Science, Bengaluru in liquid crystals. Expert in photoalignment and waste to wealth technologies, Dr Hegde has more than 18 years of R&D experience. His major research is in the field of liquid crystals, LCDs, nanoparticles, energy, water, and health. He invented many concepts for aligning materials, waste to wealth technologies etc. He is instrumental in starting Centre for Nanomaterials and Display laboratory at BMS College of Engineering which is one of the state-of-the-art laboratories in India in field of photoalignment. He has published more than 150 scientific publications with h-index 24 and has more than 20 patents. He also obtained more than 60 international awards and guided many PhD and MSc, MTech students. Presently he is working as a Prof. CNR Rao Chair Professor.