Dr. Vimala Raghavan is an enthusiastic and experienced Professor at the Centre for Nanotechnology Research, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. Her innovative  research is transdisciplinary, focusing on the design and application of cutting-edge nanotechnology aiming to implement United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Her expertise lies on the development of flexible printed Point-of-Care biosensors, integrating biological molecules (DNA, antibodies, cells and enzymes) with nanomaterials for Environmental remediation, Agriculture & Food safety and Healthcare monitoring. She received her Ph.D. degree in Environmental Biotechnology from VIT, Vellore, India. As the lead editor, she has published the book “Waste Management and Treatment: Advances and Innovations” for Taylor & Francis; and guest-edited several special issues of SCI and SCOPUS-indexed journals and books. She has guided 6 Ph. D scholars, and more than 30 Master’s Project students. She is currently guiding 6 Ph.D. scholars, as well as serving as an investigator of several internationally and nationally-funded research projects. She has more than 70 international and national journal publications and contributed eight book chapters and many conference papers.  

Mr. Arghya Chakravorty is an early career researcher, Doctoral fellow at the Centre for Nanotechnology Research, Vellore Institute of Technology – Vellore, India; and European Union’s Horizon 2020-funded visiting researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He holds 7 Indian patents, while his research interest lies in interdisciplinary material science and nanobiotechnology. Recently he has edited two books, “Handbook of Porous Carbon Materials” for Springer Nature; and “Waste Management and Treatment: Advances and Innovations” for Taylor & Francis. As an early researcher, he has also published more than twenty research, review papers, and book chapters with international repute. Before starting his research journey, he earned his B.Sc. Honors (Microbiology) from Midnapore College, India, and a first-class M.Sc. (Microbiology) from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal (Central) University, India. He is an active student member of the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Solid Waste Association of North America, and British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Ms. Aarcha A.M. is a Doctoral fellow at the Centre for Nanotechnology Research, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. She is presently working on nanomaterial-based Electrochemical sensors for Pesticide detection for Agriculture and Food Safety, while being an expert in the field of Nanomaterial synthesis like Graphene, MXene, MXene-derivatives. She has completed her Masters from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. She has several research and review publications in reputed scopus indexed journals.