Biographical note

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. Kalim Deshmukh is a Senior Researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has over 20 years of research experience working with various nanostructured materials, and polymeric materials, especially polymer blends, and nanocomposites for numerous applications. His research interest is mainly focused on the synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of the structure–property relationships of different polymers reinforced with various nanofillers including metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, carbon allotropes, and novel 2D nanomaterials for energy storage, gas sensing and EMI shielding applications. Professor Mariam AlAli AlMaadeed is Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Professor, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt in 2001, and joined the Physics Department at Qatar University in the same year. Prof. AlMaadeed has excellent experience and a large amount of internationally recognized work in the field of polymers, characterization and structure, as well as in nanocomposites and nanotechnology. Her work is featured in more than 130 journals and conference publications. Prof. AlMaadeed has given many consultations and workshops to a diverse group of organizations, across industry, government ministries, and communities. She is currently a member in many advisory committees and editorial board bodies such as Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science, Taylor and Francis and Emergent Materials, Springer. Prof. AlMaadeed has designed and contributed to many workshops, symposiums and conferences in the field of materials science, and in teaching and learning strategies. She received the Physics State Award for 2010, the Gulf Petrochemical Association (GPCA) Plastic Excellence Award in 2014 and the ISESCO Prize in Science & Technology 2016.