**Sadanand Pandey**

Sadanand Pandey joined Yeungnam University (YU, South Korea) in early 2019 as a research professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He received an M.Sc. degree (biochemistry) from the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS), in 2001, and a PhD (polymer chemistry) from the University of Allahabad in 2009. Just after completed his Ph.D., he joined the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India), as a UGC-Kothari fellow. Later, he moved to the University of Johannesburg, SA. He obtained various prestigious fellowships, including the DST/NRF innovation fellowship of South Africa and the Dr. Kothari postdoctoral fellowship (UGC) (JRF-DST and SRF-DST), India. He is specialized in water pollution control and resource recovery, which includes bio-based technology for highly efficient wastewater treatment and water reclamation, augmented bioremediation of polluted aquatic environments, and waste organic recycling and resource recovery. A well-recognized feature of his research is the effective integration of fundamental (interdisciplinary) and practically applicable research. As a published researcher, he has authored over +150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and spoken at international conferences on polymer synthesis, heavy metal removal, and nanomaterial synthesis for water purification, sensor, and biomedical applications. He has published more than 150 publications, having been cited over +5000 times with an H-index of 35. He recently served as a guest editor for *Materials Letters*, *Frontiers in Chemistry*, *Biosensor*, *Chemosensors*, *Molecules*, *Materials*, *Polymers*, and many other journals. He also serves as an associate editor, consultant editor, and editorial board members in many internationally reputed journals. He is a member of many scientific communities, such as the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC), the Indian Science Congress Association (ISC), the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), a member of the Indian Chemical Society, etc. He has authored +10 book chapters on advanced materials and technology for esteemed publishers in the USA. He has presented his work in numerous domestic and international conferences and published proceedings. He is a referee of over 200 journals, funding grants from all over the world (e.g., the National Science Foundation-SA), PhD theses, faculty promotions, and many other activities. He collaborates with prestigious laboratories worldwide, maintains a large collaborative research network, and is very active in communicating with the science society. He has received many notable awards and has been named among the top 2% of scientists in the world as per a subject-wise analysis conducted by a team of scientists at Stanford University, led by Dr John PA Ioannidis in the years 2020 and 2021.
