Prof. (Dr.) Akarsh Verma is currently working as JSPS International Research Fellow at the Osaka University (Japan) and Assistant Professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (India). He obtained Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India, and did his postdoctoral research work at the Brigham Young University (USA). He serves in the research community by acting as Reviewer for various international journals (Nature, Elsevier, Springer, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, IOP, etc.) and has reviewed several research articles. In addition, he has published various research articles in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals, many books and book chapters, and also presented many research papers at various international/national conferences. His areas of interest are computational mechanics, computational chemistry, quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, nanocomposites, etc. Hariome Sharan Gupta is currently working in the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Saharanpur Campus, Paper Mill Road Saharanpur, India. He holds M.Tech. (IIT BHU, Varanasi) in Material Science Department and B.Tech. (CIPET, Lucknow) in Plastics Engineering Department. His research interests include hybrid polymer composites and polymer composites and polymer nanocomposites, adhesives and coatings, applications of additives, polymer and composites processing/compounding, and predictions of polymer composites by models and equations. He has several published and communicated research publications in international peer-reviewed SCI journals. Prof. (Dr.) Sushanta Kumar Sethi is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering at IIT Dharwad, India. Prior to this, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS) at IIT Bombay,India. He successfully completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Polymer & Process Engineering at IIT Roorkee. He holds an M.Tech. in Rubber Technology from IIT Kharagpur and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from BPUT, India. His research interests encompass various areas such as computational materials science, self-clean coatings, functional nanomaterials/quantum dots and their applications, multi-scale molecular modeling and simulations of polymer materials, development of novel and environmentally sustainable polymer composites and nanocomposites, as well as coatings and adhesives. He has an impressive publication record with various research publications in internationally recognized SCI journals, international conferences, and book chapters.
