Saroj Kumar currently is an associate professor in the Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He has been adjunct faculty at the Luleå University of Technology since
2021. He completed his Ph.D. studies at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University in 2011. During his PhD and postdoc, he learned biophysics, and molecular biology and achieved expertise in ligand/drug binding to protein and IR spectroscopy and imaging. Later, he joined as a research associate at a synchrotron research facility in Canada, to work on ischemic stroke, multiple sclerosis (neurodegenerative disease), and breast cancer. Then, he joined Uppsala University to work on pain biomarkers (brain response). He is a trained biophysicist with a strong background in biochemistry and a record of high-impact publications. His experience covers several main aspects of the project, i.e., health science, method development, and IR spectroscopy.
Prem C. Pandey is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He received his master’s (1980) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees from Gorakhpur University. From 1989 to 1990, he served as a post-doctoral researcher at the Ecole des Mines, Saint Etienne France. He was a visiting professor at the University of California (2003), the Institut de Microtechnique (2007), and Moscow State University (2009). His research interests are sensor technology, bioelectrochemistry, organically modified silicate-based nanomaterial, optoelectrochemistry, and functional nanoparticles.
Roger J. Narayan is a distinguished professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. He currently leads the Materials Research Society Bio Staging Task Force on 3D/Bioprinting. He has previously served as director of the TMS Functional Materials Division, the ASM International Emerging Technologies Awareness Committee, and the American Ceramic Society Bioceramics Division. As the 2016-7 ASME Swanson Fellow, he worked with America Makes, the national additive manufacturing institute, on several activities to disseminate additive manufacturing technology, including the development of a workforce/education/outreach roadmap for additive manufacturing and the development of a repository containing educational materials related to additive manufacturing. He has been the director of a Science Saturday outreach program at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences since 2010. He has received several honors for his research activities, including the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award,
the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and the TMS Functional Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award. He has been elected as a Fellow of AAAS, ASME, ASM International, AIMBE, the American Ceramic Society, and the Materials Research Society.
