Prof. Nandakumar Kalarikkal is the Director of International Centre for Ultrafast Studies at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. He was the former Director and Joint Director of the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and former Director and Chair of School of Pure and Applied Physics and Director-in-Charge of School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. With more than 30 years of research and academic experience, his research group is specialized in syntheses, characterization, and applications of various nanomaterials. The different topics of current research works include nanomultiferroics, nanosemiconductors, nanophosphors, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, nanosensors, LASER-matter interactions, catalysis, water splitting, phase transitions and ion beam irradiation effects. He is Recipient of research fellowships and associateships from prestigious government organizations such as the Department of Science and Technology and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of Government of India. He is CNRS Professor, Claud-Bernard Lyon University, Lyon, France; Professor@Lorraine and Visiting Professor, Institute of Jean Lamour, Nancy, France; Visiting Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden; Visiting Professor, Joef Stefan Institute, Ljubjana, Slovenia; Guest Scientist, Leibniz-Institut fur Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany; Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India; , etc.. He has published over 300 research articles in international refereed journals, edited 35 books, and served as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of 35 national and international projects. He also holds 8 patents and has supervised/co-supervised 32 Ph. D and 30 Master's students. Bhadrapriya B. C is a research scholar at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala, India. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Kerala University and a Master's and M. Phil degrees in Physics from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Her research focuses on developing magnetic nanoparticles and magnetoelectric nanocomposites for use in sensing applications. She has published 4 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and has authored 5 book chapters to her credit. Bosely Anne Bose is a research scholar at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. She holds a Bachelor's, Master's, and M. Phil degrees in Physics from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Her current research focuses on developing carbon-based nanostructures for environmental remediation applications. She published 3 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and has authored 5 book chapters to her credit. Dr. Parasuraman Padmanabhan is the Head of Operations at the Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre (CoNiC) at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore. He brings extensive expertise in establishing various in vivo imaging modalities, including Optical, MRI, PET, SPECT, and CT, for monitoring cellular events in mice, rats, and Non-Human Primates. His primary research focuses on developing innovative imaging assays to study cellular signal transduction networks in living animals. With over 30 years of research and teaching experience, Dr. Parasuraman has contributed to several prestigious institutions, including Cornell, Stanford University, and A*STAR's SBIC Research Institute. Prof. Sabu Thomas is the Former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He currently serves as the Director and Professor of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, and is the Chairman of the Trivandrum Engineering Science & Technology Research Park (TrEST Research Park).He has guided over 120 Ph.D. students. He has received several national and international awards for best researcher and is a member of numerous scientific bodies and committees. So far, 3 universities have honored him with honorary doctorates, which include the University of South Brittany, France; the University of Lorraine, France; and the Siberian Federal University, Russia. He has authored more than 1,400 research publications and 205 edited books with renowned publishers like the Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier Wiley, etc. He has a notable h-index of 132 and has accumulated over 82,100+ citations. Dr. Murukeshan Vadakke Matham is the Director of the Center for Optical and Laser Engineering (COLE) and Deputy Director of The Photonics Institute. He leads a research group specializing in Biomedical Optics, Nanoscale Optics, Laser-based Micro and Nanoscale Fabrication, and Applied Optics for Metrology. With over 25 years of professional experience, including 3 years of postdoctoral work and 22 years of teaching, Dr. Murukeshan has an extensive academic profile. He has published over 200 international journal papers and over 170 international conference proceedings/presentations, co-authored a book, and holds 22 patents and 12 innovation disclosures. To date, he has supervised 26 PhD students and 4 Master's students and is currently supervising 4 PhD students. Dr. Murukeshan is also Associate Editor for Optical Engineering and the International Journal of Optomechatronics (IJO). He is a Fellow of SPIE, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), and a Distinguished Fellow of the Optical Society of India.
