Vandana Vinayak Author & Editor

Vandana Vinayak is an assistant professor in the School of Applied Sciences at Dr. Hari Singh Gour Vishwavidhyalaya University, Madhya Pradesh, India. Her research focuses on diatom nanoengineering, sustainable algal technologies, and valorization. She has published 50 research articles, 20 review articles, 12 chapter books, and two published patents. She reviews the Indian government and French and UK funding agencies. Vinayak won the Women Scientist Award and the Noel Gold Medal Award.

Richard Gordon’s involvement with diatoms goes back to 1970 with his capillarity model for their gliding motility, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. He later worked on a diffusion-limited aggregation model for diatom morphogenesis, which led to the first paper ever published on diatom nanotechnology in 1988. He organized the first workshop on diatom nanotech in 2003.