About the Editors
D. Pooja is currently working as a senior scientist at CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh. She
has done her Ph.D. in Engineering from the AcSIR, New Delhi, M. Tech. in
Nanotechnology from IIT Roorkee with Gold Medal, B. Tech in Biotechnology
with the first rank from Kurukshetra University. She is a well-established young
scientist in the field of nanomaterials, sensors, and energy harvesting devices. She
has published 45 international high impact publications, 02 books and more than 50
conference papers . Her research interest is towards techniques and technologies
design and development for water pollutants monitoring using opto/electrochemical
techniques. She has mainly focused on materails design for above application.
Besides, she is also working on materials engineering for solar hydrogen production. She is recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships including
Associateship, Indian Academy of Science, ISCA Young Scientist Award (2019)
from Indian Science Congress Association, ISEES Young Scientist Award (2019)
by International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, BRICS
Young Scientist Award (2018), DST, New Delhi, PITTCON- Travel Grant (2018)
from American Chemical Society, Indo-US WARI fellowship (2017), New Delhi,
Young Scientist Project Award (2017) from DST, New Delhi, Canadian
Commonwealth Fellowship (2010), and MHRD GATE Fellowship (2008). She is
also an Outreach Programs Coordinator: CSIR-JIGYASA and CSIR-FTAMP
funded by the Gov. of India, Focal Point Member in Indigo projects (European
Commission) (2016-2017), Member of Board of Studies, Kurukshetra University,
Member of National Advisory Committee, ICAST-2018, Jaipur, India (2018).
Dr. Praveen Kumar is working as an Assistant Professor at Indian Association for
Cultivation of Sciences (IACS), Kolkata and also a Chair of Marie Curie Alumni
Association (MCAA) Indian Chapter funded by the European Commission. He
received his Ph.D. from Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi in 2011, followed by the postdoctoral studied at ISOM, UPM Madrid. He is
recipient of several recognized awards and fellowships, few of them are BRICS
Young Scientist Award (2017), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from
European Commission (2012), INSPIRE Faculty Award from Department of
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D. Pooja is currently working as a senior scientist at CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh. She
has done her Ph.D. in Engineering from the AcSIR, New Delhi, M. Tech. in
Nanotechnology from IIT Roorkee with Gold Medal, B. Tech in Biotechnology
with the first rank from Kurukshetra University. She is a well-established young
scientist in the field of nanomaterials, sensors, and energy harvesting devices. She
has published 45 international high impact publications, 02 books and more than 50
conference papers . Her research interest is towards techniques and technologies
design and development for water pollutants monitoring using opto/electrochemical
techniques. She has mainly focused on materails design for above application.
Besides, she is also working on materials engineering for solar hydrogen production. She is recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships including
Associateship, Indian Academy of Science, ISCA Young Scientist Award (2019)
from Indian Science Congress Association, ISEES Young Scientist Award (2019)
by International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, BRICS
Young Scientist Award (2018), DST, New Delhi, PITTCON- Travel Grant (2018)
from American Chemical Society, Indo-US WARI fellowship (2017), New Delhi,
Young Scientist Project Award (2017) from DST, New Delhi, Canadian
Commonwealth Fellowship (2010), and MHRD GATE Fellowship (2008). She is
also an Outreach Programs Coordinator: CSIR-JIGYASA and CSIR-FTAMP
funded by the Gov. of India, Focal Point Member in Indigo projects (European
Commission) (2016-2017), Member of Board of Studies, Kurukshetra University,
Member of National Advisory Committee, ICAST-2018, Jaipur, India (2018).
Dr. Praveen Kumar is working as an Assistant Professor at Indian Association for
Cultivation of Sciences (IACS), Kolkata and also a Chair of Marie Curie Alumni
Association (MCAA) Indian Chapter funded by the European Commission. He
received his Ph.D. from Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi in 2011, followed by the postdoctoral studied at ISOM, UPM Madrid. He is
recipient of several recognized awards and fellowships, few of them are BRICS
Young Scientist Award (2017), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from
European Commission (2012), INSPIRE Faculty Award from Department of
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