Biographical note

Sonia Khanna, PhD, is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. She has teaching and research experience of over 14 years, with expertise in the field of inorganic materials, coordination compounds, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, and biological activity of materials. She has published 18 articles, six book chapters and has several patents and copyrights to her credit. She has been associated with projects sponsored by the reputed organization Indian Space Research Organisation. She earned her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India, and is recipient of a gold medal for her MSc and has many merit certificates for best performance in chemistry. She has qualified in many national-level competitive exams (NET-JRF, GATE). She has supervised many MSc and PhD students and is currently associated with many research projects.

Ann Rose Abraham, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Thevara, Kochi, Kerala, India. She has expertise in the field of condensed matter physics, nanomagnetism, multiferroics, polymeric nanocomposites, etc. She has research experience at various reputed national institutes, including Bose Institute, Kolkata, India; SAHA Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India; and UGC-DAE CSR Centre, Kolkata, India; and she has collaborated with various international laboratories. She is a recipient of a young researcher award in physics and best paper awards (2020, 2021). She served as Assistant Professor and Examiner at the Department of Basic Sciences, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, under APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala, India. Dr. Abraham is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She has a good number of publications to her credit in many peer-reviewed high impact journals of international repute. She has authored many book chapters and edited more than 10 books with Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, etc.

Kian Hariri Asli is a research scholar in the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ""Tor Vergata"", Rome, Italy. He has expertise in electronic and control engineering. He works towards the development of energy saving by networked sensors, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) based on geospatial information systems (GIS).

A. K. Haghi, PhD, is a retired professor with over 250 academic research-oriented books as well as over 1000 research papers published in various journals and conference proceedings with over 3350 citations and h-index of 30, according to the Google Scholar database. He is currently a senior material engineering consultant in the UK. Professor A. K. Haghi has received several grants, consulted for several major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He is Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and Polymers Research Journal. Professor A. K. Haghi has acted as an editorial board member of many international journals. He has served as a member of the Canadian Research and Development Center of Sciences & Cultures and the Research Chemistry Centre, Coimbra, Portugal. He has supervised several PhD and MSc thesis at University of Guilan (UG) and co-supervised international doctoral projects. Professor Haghi holds a BSc in urban and environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina (USA), and holds two MSc, one in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (USA) and another one in applied mechanics, acoustics, and materials from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France). He was awarded a PhD in engineering sciences at Université de Franche-Comté (France).