Rakesh K. Sharma is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India. His research focuses on catalysis, feedstock chemistry, energy harvesting and storage, environmental remediation, and fuels.

Dr. Poushali Das is a senior research scientist at the Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada. Before this, she held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She completed her Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. She has received prestigious awards including the DST INSPIRE Scholar Award (Government of India), Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (European Commission), and H.G. Thode Postdoctoral Fellowship (Canada). Her research interests include multifunctional luminescent quantum dots and applications in sensors, biomedical fields, smart nanocomposites, polymer nanocomposites, etc.

Dr. Sayan Ganguly is working in the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He obtained his B.Sc degree in Chemistry (Honours) at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, University of Calcutta; and then his B.Tech in 2012 (University of Calcutta). After that, he then went on to obtain his M.Tech from the University of Calcutta in polymer science and technology. His primary research interests include superabsorbent hydrogels, fluorescence in hydrogels, nanomaterials in hydrogels, and hydrogels in the biomedical fields.