Kalim Deshmukh Editor

Dr. Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni is currently working as a Research Assistant Professor and the group leader of SmartNanoSolutions at Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University. Dr. Kishor’s research has its roots from the analytical chemistry he mastered during his Master’s degree in Andhra University, India. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of South Brittany at Lorient, France in 2012 under the supervision of the Prof. Yves Grohens and Prof. Sabu Thomas. He has to his credit a vast experience of postdoctoral research as he has been to this position firstly at the Inha University at South Korea (Professor Jeahwan Kim Supervisor, 2014) and then two times at Qatar University (Professor Mariam Al-Madeed,2015 and Dr. John-John Cabibihan,2017). He was appointed to the Center for Advanced Materials at Qatar University in 2018 as a Research Associate from which he has been promoted to his present designation as Research assistant Professor in June 2021. He has been included in the world’s top 2 % scientists according to a list compiled by Stanford University in the year 2019 and for this he was recently honored by the QU. He has enormous knowledge and valuable experience in his field owing to over 12 years of active research research experience of 12 years. Dr. Kishor has more than 250 research articles published in international peer reviewed journals with a total citation of 4850 and h-index 37. He is also the author of 20 book chapters and the editor of 8 books. His books were included in Springer Top 25 e-book download of the year 2020. Some of Dr. Kishor’s inventions are protected by 2 US patents and 2 Indian patents and presently 5 patent disclosures have been submitted by him. He is a group leader and is presently the lead principal investigator for 11 research projects, covering the NPRP, UREP, IRCC grants of Qatar National Research Fund and the Qatar University. He is also involved in other three research grants as the principal investigator, summarizing a total grant amount of 3M$. Dr. Kishor is a team player and has collaborated actively with researchers (more than 450 co-authors as evident from the Scopus data) in several disciplines of computer science, biomedical sciences, industrial engineering, and electrical engineering from all over the world (USA, France, South Korea, Oman, Spain, Italy, Australia, Malaysia). Dr. Kishor’s achievements have been recognized by several awards such as Tyre & Rubber Industry Leadership Acknowledgement Awards (TRILA); Young Research Scholar of the Year 2017. Dr. Kalim Deshmukh is a senior researcher at the University of West Bohemia's New Technologies-Research Center in Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has more than 15 years of research expertise in the synthesis, characterisation, and structure-property relationship of many different polymeric materials, polymer blends, and nanocomposites for many different technological applications. His research is mainly focused with the synthesis, characterization, and property studies of polymer nanocomposites reinforced with various nanofillers, including nanoparticles and carbon allotropes like carbon black, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and its derivatives for potential electronic applications. He has co-edited two books and written over 100 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and 30 book chapters with prestigious international publications. Additionally, he actively participated in numerous international conferences where he presented his research work and has been serving as a reviewer for numerous reputable international publications. Dr. S. K. Khadheer Pasha obtained his M.Sc. degree in Physics from Osmania University, followed by an MPhil degree from Anna University, and PhD degree in physics from the Department of Physics, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore-632014, TN, India. He is currently working as a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, VIT-AP University. He has about seven years of teaching and 12 years of research experience. His research is mainly focused on the synthesis of nanocomposite materials for various applications such as energy storage, gas sensors, and EMI shielding. Currently, he is guiding 5 PhD students working on different research topics. He has published over 89 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and 10 book chapters with international publishers. Dr. Tomáš Kovárík is the Head of Department of Chemical Processes and Biomaterials at New Technologies - Research Centre, University of West Bohemia. Dr. Tomáš Kovárík completed an Ing. degree in Material Science and Engineering followed by a Ph.D. degree in material science from the Department of Materials and Engineering Metallurgy from the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. Since 2013, he has been running a research program and academic activities in material science focused on materials and technologies. Since 2017, he has been the co-researcher on international projects within the European Commission - Structural funds on the topic of composite structures and porous materials. His research interest is mainly devoted to the synthesis and characterization of porous inorganic materials the functionalization/incorporation of carbon nanoparticles. Besides, his focus is on the thermal analysis data processing and interpretation in the description of the thermal stability of materials. He has published over 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international impacted journals like Materials & Design, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Construction and Building Materials, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, Thermochemical Acta etc.