Somenath Mitra is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science. He has published over 125 refereed manuscripts, 7 book chapters, presented over 250 in national and international conferences, nearly a quarter of them are invited lectures, and is the coauthor and editor of two books. He is the co-winner of the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from Research and Development Council of New Jersey, November 2009. Pradyot Patnaik, Ph.D., is currently the Director of the Environmental Laboratory of Interstate Environmental Commission at Staten Island, New York and is a researcher at the Center for Environmental Science at City University of New York at Staten Island. Dr Patnaik teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey and at the Community College of Philadelphia. He was formerly the Director of the Special Research Project at the Environmental Testing and Technologies in Westmont, New Jersey, and after that, the Director of Rancocas Environmental Laboratory in Delanco, New Jersey. Earlier Dr. Patnaik was a post-doctoral research scientist at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He had obtained a B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Utkal University in India and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Barbara B. Kebbekus, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA.
