Dr. Anupma Thakur is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE) at Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA. She is also an early career research fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. She completed a Ph.D. as a DST-INSPIRE Research fellow at AcSIR, CSIR-CSIO (National Research and Development Laboratory) Chandigarh, India, in August 2021. She earned a gold medal in Master of Technology (M.Tech. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the Panjab University, Chandigarh, India in 2016. She has also earned a gold medal in Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Akal College of Engineering & Technology, Eternal University, Baru-Sahib, India in 2014. She is a well-established young nanotechnologist in the field of advanced nanomaterials & materials science for various applications, including materials for clean hydrogen energy generation, carbon capture and utilization, chemical sensors, photo/electrocatalysis, extreme environment, and actuators. She has published more than 42 international high-impact publications, 05 patents (filed), 14 book chapters, more than 25 conference papers, and delivered >70 oral talks. She has attained >980 citations to her published research contributions.

Dr. Manish Kumar completed his M.Sc. (Physics) from CDLU Sirsa in 2009. He received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree from UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research/DAVV, Indore. Since 2015, he is working as a researcher at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, South Korea. He has published more than 75 research papers in reputed International journals and 4 book chapters. To present his research work at international level, he has visited counties like USA, Germany, Italy, France and South Korea. He is an Associate Editor in Frontiers in Materials journal. Also, he is a guest Editor in reputed international journals such as Applied Nanoscience, Journal of Electronic Materials, Coatings and Magnetism. Dr. Manish is mainly involved in synchrotron radiation based research and functional oxides thin films.

Vikas Sharma has over ten years of research experience with a primary interest in next-generation photovoltaics and transparent electrodes. He is a senior researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Before this, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), India, after completing his PhD from NIT-Jaipur. During his PhD, he received the prestigious UGC-IUAC beam time award for conducting research with energetic ions beamlines. Further, he also received research excellence travel grants from IIT Bombay and an ITS travel grant from SERB India. His academic research experience in device design and fabrication is in fabricating various energy and optoelectronic thin-film devices such as solar cells, sensors, memristors, light-emitting diodes and electrodes in opaque and transparent modes using a range of materials such as halide perovskite, organic semiconductors, metal oxides, and even advanced materials such as 2D materials. Vikas is a highly cited author with over 800 citations and has published 33 papers (15 as first author and 6 as corresponding author) in peer-reviewed journals like Solar RRL, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Advanced Electronic Materials, Solar Energy, ACS applied electronics materials, RSC Advances, Materials & Design. He has developed research collaborations around the world with eminent scholars of energy and optoelectronics. He is also an active reviewer in prestigious journals such as Nanotechnology, ACS Applied Nano Materials, Material Letters, and ACS Applied Electronic Materials. He has delivered five invited talks and participated in several national and international conferences for outreach activities. Besides his academic credentials, Dr. Vikas also has a proud association with the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun and the Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala. Being socially conscious and in the spirit of bringing positive change to society, Vikas is also a member of the Lions Club International and other NGOs.

Dr. Rojalin Sahu is currently working as an Associate Professor-II in the Department of Chemistry at KIIT deemed to be University, Bhubnaeswar. She has 12 years of teaching experience and 16 years of research experience. She has completed her M.Sc. and M.Phil. (Utkal University), PhD (IIT Guwahati). She is the recipient of DST young scientist travel award to present a paper at Technical University, Dresden, Germany and CONICET International Post-Doctoral fellowship. Most notably, she has been qualified Radiological Safety Officer (RSO) by BARC, Mumbai. She has been the lead Investigator of a number of externally funded projects (DST, DBT, ICMR, UGC-DAE-CSR, Ministry of Mines and BRNS). She has successfully conducted many National and International conferences as convener. She is also a NABL trained officer for Chemical Testing Laboratories. Her basic areas of research are synthesis and characterization of new Coordination Compounds and their catalytic and biomedical applications; Metal Organic Frameworks and Covalent Organic Frameworks for different application such as energy harvesting, drug delivery, catalysis, NLO, wastewater treatment, etc.

Dr. Deepak Kumar received his Ph.D. degree in the field of "Gel polymer electrolytes for sodium battery" from the University of Delhi in 2011. He was awarded NET-JRF (Physics) in 2008 and GATE in 2007. After selection through UPSC, he is working as Assistant Professor at Electronics and Mechanical Engineering School Vadodara (Affiliated to Gujarat Technological University), Under Ministry of Defence (Army), Government of India, since August 2014. He is the recipient of a National Award, namely the "Visvesvaraya Best Teacher Award-2021," by the All-Indian Council of Technical Education, Government of India. He is a member of the Materials Research Society of India and the Indian Science Congress. Despite his short scientific career, he has published over 40 scientific papers in SCI-index journals with highest impact factor of 20 and average impact factor of ~3. He has guided 26 students for their M.E. degree research dissertations till now. 01 Ph.D. student was awarded the Ph.D. degree under his guidance, and currently he is guiding 05 Ph.D. students. He is a reviewer for more than 30 Elsevier/Springer international journals. He had delivered invited talks at more than 16 national and international conferences. He is currently working on a research project entitled "Developing polymer gel electrolytes and sulfur-cathodes for sodium-sulfur batteries operating at room temperature’’ worth Rs. 25 lacs by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Delhi (India). His current research interests are mainly focused on developing polymer-based electrolytes for sodium, magnesium batteries and electric double layer capacitor.

Dr. S Janakiraman holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and a Master's from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India. He received his Bachelor's degree from K. S. R. M College of Engineering, Cuddapah in Mechanical Engineering. He worked as a research associate in the materials research center at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India from January to November 2021 . He is currently working as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore from November 2021. Before joining IIT Kharagpur he has also served as Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India for 2 years. Dr. Janakiraman has been involved in research on composites, surface modifications, lithium, sodium, and magnesium ion rechargeable batteries over a decade. He has done extensive research in the area of new battery separator electrolyte systems for rechargeable batteries. He filed an Indian patent from one of his Ph. D work and was part of two other Indian patents filed from his research group. He has authored over 17 international journal articles, 3 conference proceedings, 2 book chapters, and 2 books. His articles appeared in high-impact Journals like the Journal of power sources, Electrochimica Acta, Ceramics International, Solid-state Ionics, and the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, etc. He is having an H-index of 12 on google scholar and his research has been cited by many international researchers all over the world. In addition, he represented his research work twice at renowned international conferences held in the USA and France during his Ph.D. course. He was awarded a research associate fellowship in the year 2020 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India for carrying the research work on new battery materials for rechargeable batteries. He has vast experience in research on rechargeable batteries for over 10 years.

Dr. Parmod Kumar has been working as an Assistant Professor at J. C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA Faridabad since 2020. Dr. Kumar did his Masters in Physics from Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra in 2009 and Masters in Nanotechnology from NIT Kurukshetra in 2011. After that, he completed a Ph.D. in Physics from IIT Delhi in Dec. 2014. Dr. Kumar got an opportunity to work at University of Leipzig, Germany as a DAAD fellow during his doctoral degree. He served as Postdoctoral fellow at Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi from Jan 2015 to March 2016. After that he received the prestigious DST-INSPIRE Faculty award and worked at DCRUST Murthal for a period of 3 years. He has completed 4 research project received from UGC/DST. He is the Co-coordinator of the ongoing PURSE project worth 7 crore awarded by DST, New Delhi Dr. Kumar has published more than 65 research articles in reputed journals . He is also the editor of 2 books in SPRINGER and ELSEVIER.

Dr. Sachin Gupta is currently working as an assistant professor at Bennett Uni. (Times of India Group), Greater Noida. Dr. Gupta did his Ph. D from department of Physics, IIT Bombay. After his PhD, He moved to Japan, where he did his first postdoc at Tohoku university, Japan. After that he joined Kyoto University Japan for his second postdoc. He also worked there as an assistant professor for a year. Before joining Bennett uni., Dr. Gupta was working as a research scientist at university of Leeds, UK. He has published 40+ research papers in leading peer reviewed international journals. Dr. Gupta has been awarded Ramanujan fellowship and DST INSPIRE faculty awards.

Dr. Neeti Tripathi is a research scientist at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Kansai Center, Japan. She obtained B.Sc. from Kanpur University, M. Sc. from Lucknow University and M. Phil (Physics) from Agra University, India. She completed her Ph.D. (Physics) from Delhi University India in 2013, following which she held Junior research fellowship (JRF) by Inter-University Accelerator Center (IUAC), and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Osaka and National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, JAPAN. Later she received DST-Inspire Faculty award by Department of Science and Technology (DST), India and served as DST-Inspire Faculty at National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Delhi and Doon University, Dehradun, INDIA. During her research career, she worked on transparent conducting oxides, fluorescent materials, ceramics and lead-halide perovskites solar cells. She is currently focusing on the development of near infrared (NIR)-to-visible materials for broad band excitations, using Triplet-Triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) mechanism and investigating the fundamental insight of energy transfer dynamics using laser spectroscopies. Her group employs an interdisciplinary approach to facilitate the rational design of PbS quantum dot- based hybrid upconversion system in solid-state, that can harness low energy NIR photons in order to improve the performance

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Dr. Aga Shahee is a condensed matter experimentalist and a prestigious Ramanujan faculty fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation (CIRI), University of Kashmir, India. He possesses a strong academic background in physics, having earned his M.Sc. in Physics with a gold medal from the University of Kashmir. He completed his Ph.D. at the UGC DAE Consortium for Scientific Research in Indore, where he conducted research as a recipient of CSIR JRF and SRF grants. Dr. Shahee has over 8 years of post-Ph.D. expertise and has worked at some of the world's leading universities and institutions, including JGU-Mainz in Germany, Seoul National University in South Korea, and IIT Bombay in India. His research delves into the intricate domain of strongly correlated electronic systems and quantum materials, with a specific emphasis on multifunctional magnetoelectric and spintronic properties. With an impressive publication record of 48 contributions in esteemed journals, Dr. Shahee continues to make remarkable advancements in the field of condensed matter physics

Dr. Deependra Parajuli is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal since 2002 AD. He is working in the field of Material Science (energy efficient devices, solar materials, energy storage devices, hydrogen energy materials, etc.), characterization, and analysis in both experimental and computational approaches with the help of sophisticated apparatuses and software packages like XRD, SEM-EDS, TEM, FTIR, VSM, BET, WIEN2K, QE, TBLMTO, PC1D, PVSYST, etc. He is working as a research scientist at the Research Center for Applied Science and Technology, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal. He had his Ph.D. Degree from the Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India. He has supervised more than 30 Master’s and Bachelor-degree students and is supervising more than 12 such students along with a couple of Ph.D. students. He has received several prestigious Medals and Awards from the different ministries of Nepal and other international agencies. He has published more than 150 research articles, general articles, research books, and books with high indices including in Nature Journals. He is the former Vice-President of the Nepal Physical Society. He is the president of the Nepalese Society of Spectroscopy and Microscopy (NSM). He has selected, trained, and made participated the Nepali Team in the Physics and Science Olympiads in more than 15 countries. He has organized and participated in several conferences, seminars, and workshops as a keynote speaker, invited speaker, and presenter. He is a reviewer of several highly indexed journals and a sub-editor of the Journal of Nepal Physical Society. He is the Member Secretary of the Association of Science Societies of Nepal and President, of the Society of Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Nepal. He is a senior member of IEEE. He is an appointed academician of Putalibazaar Municipality, Nepal. He is the principal investigator of some projects funded by the University Grants Commission-Nepal along with the local and central government of Nepal. He is a sports Expert in Martial Art. He is interested in multidisciplinary research contributing to entrepreneurship and job creation

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Dr. Surbhi Gupta is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Motilal Nehru National Institute oF technology, Allahabad. Her major research field includes Spin-transport behaviour, magneto-dynamics studies in different magnetic/non-magnetic hetero-structures, ferroelectric photovoltaics and multiferroics. She completed her Ph.D in condense matter physics from Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi. Before joining as faculty in MNNIT, she worked as post-doc in different institutes including University of Puerto Rico, US, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dr. Monu Mishra is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Dyal Singh College University of Delhi. His research interest and expertise include surface & interface science, photoemission spectroscopy, semiconductor physics and sensing devices. Dr. Mishra has published 55 research articles in SCI journals with over 1400 citations. He has been awarded with many best poster and best oral presentation awards at national/international conferences. Besides this, Dr. Mishra is also a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowships namely; DS Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (UGC, India), ROW Fellowship - 2020 (TU Munich, Germany), Young Scientist at Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings - 2019 (Lindau, Germany), Graduate Research Award – 2018 (American Vacuum Society, USA), Best Paper Award (Applied Surface Science, Elsevier), ESONN Fellowship - 2018 (UGA Grenoble, France), DST - ITS (2017), ICTP Travel Fellowship (ICTP, Italy) etc.