Biographical note

Prof. Uday Pratap Azad is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (GGV), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Before joining GGV as Assistant Professor he worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pusan National University and Yonsei University, respectively, for over  three years. He has also worked as National Post-Doctoral Fellow at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India. He is the recipient of several prestigious fellowships, e.g., President Fellowship (South-Korea), Brain Korean Fellowship (BK-21) South-Korea, and National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (SERB, India). He has expertise in electrochemical sensors, biosensors, fuel cells, energy storage, electrochemical water splitting, etc. His research interest includes various kinds of nanomaterials, metal complexes, metal oxides, and nanocomposite-based modified electrodes for various electroanalytical applications. He has a better understanding of nano-electrochemistry and is associated as a reviewer in more than 30 peer-reviewed international journals. He has almost five years of teaching experience and more than 5 years of research experience excluding the experience gained during Ph.D. tenure. Recently, he has published one Handbook of Nanobioelectrochemistry in Springer Nature and three other books are in various stages of publication in reputed publishing houses. He has also published more than 50 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals.

Prof. Pranjal Chandra is an Associate Professor and Coordinator at the School of Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He earned his Ph.D. from Pusan National University, South Korea, and did post-doctoral training at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. His research focus is highly interdisciplinary, spanning a wide range in biotechnology, nanobiosensors, material engineering, and biomedical devices. He has designed several commercially viable biosensing prototypes that can be operated for onsite analysis in the arena of biomedical diagnostics and environmental monitoring. He is an associate editor/ editorial board member for various international journals including Scientific Reports, Microchemical Journal, Green Analytical Chemistry, etc. He has been appointed as Advisor for the Biomedical Sensors Domain and Sensor Networks Systems at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), London. He is also a member of International Centre for Sensor Science and Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Prof. Chandra has authored more than 175 publications including research/reviews papers and invited book chapters. He is an accomplished inventor of 14 patents and has also co-edited 14 books on various aspects of biosensors/medical diagnostics/material engineering. He has guided 5 Ph.D. students and currently he is supervising 13 graduate students (Ph.D. and M.Tech) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards and coveted honors, such as Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society; Shakuntala Amirchand Award by Indian Council of Medical Research; FSSAI: Eat Right Award; Prof. B K Bachawat Young Scientist Award Medal from National Academy of Sciences, Member of INYAS_INSA, DST Ramanujan fellowship; Early Career Research Award; BK-21 and NRF fellowship, South Korea; Technion Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Israel; Young Scientist Award of Biotech Research Society India; Young Engineers Award. Dr. Chandra is also listed among the world’s top 2% scientists from last 4 years by Stanford University, USA.