**About the Editors**

## **Indra Neel Pulidindi**

Dr Indra Neel Pulidindi is currently working as a scientific consultant at JSCIAR, India. Dr Neel has worked as an assistant professor at GSFC University, Vadodara (19/9/2022–18/10/2021). He received his Ph.D degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras under the supervision of Professor T K Varadarajan and Professor (Em) B Viswanathan (2002–2010). He has worked in the laboratory of Professor Aharon Gedanken Israel on the biomass conversion to biofuels and biochemicals (2/9/2010–30/10/2016). He has worked in the laboratory of Professor Tae Hyun Kim at Hanyang University on biomass composition analysis, pretreatment, and conversion (1/11/2016–9/12/2017). Subsequently, he then worked in the laboratory of Professor Xinling Wang at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (14/4/2019–24/4/2021). Dr Neel has published 48 research papers and has 3 Indian patents, 4 US patent applications, 5 books, 1 ebook, and 7 book chapters and 5 ebook chapters to his credit. Dr Neel has guided several Ph.D, masters, undergraduate, and freshmen in their academic research curriculum and helped them to earn their degrees. His research metrix, namely H index and number of citations, are 23 and 1500, respectively. His researcher interests include CO<sup>2</sup> conversion, biomass conversion, and energy conversion and storage.

### **Pankaj Sharma**

Pankaj Sharma (Varanasi, INDIA, 1976) is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, INDIA. He earned his B.Sc. (Chemistry Hons.) and M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and Ph.D (Chemistry) from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. He entered into the profession of academics by choice. The prime goal of his life is to encourage, inspire, and motivate young talents to prepare them to achieve their aim and contribute their best to society. He has carried out research in the area of pharmaceutical chemistry, nanotechnoogy, energy storage materials, bioplastics, heterogeneous catalysis, mesoporous materials, task-specific ionic liquids (TSILs), green chemistry, and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). Up until now, he has published 18 peer-reviewed papers in reputed journals, including SCI and SCIE. In addition to this, he has published one book chapter with Elsevier. He has edited two Books published by MDPI. He is also a Guest Editor of four MDPI Journals. He has been granted two patents, one Korean and one US. He has also published two Indian patents. His H index is 12 and his I index is 11. Before obtaining his Ph.D., he acquired the skills of a researcher by working in India's most advanced CSIR group of laboratories, like the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) and Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI). But his research skills reached a new height by working with his Korean mentors, Dr. Il Hyun Baek at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Prof. Chang Sik Ha at Pusan National University (PNU), and Prof. Jae Won Lee at Dankook University (DU) in the Republic of Korea, respectively, in their well-established and highly advanced laboratories during his postdoctoral experience.

#### **Aharon Gedanken**

Professor Aharon Gedanken is an outstanding and legendary scientist with over 900 publications in peer-reviewed journals of international repute and with a high impact factor. He has 37 patent applications, 5 books, and over 10 book chapters to his credit. Professor Gedanken has made remarkable contributions to the fields of sonochemistry and microwave technology and their applications to nanomaterials, biomaterials, and biofuels. He served as a faculty member in the department of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University for over 34 years (1975–2009) and has been an Emeritus professor in the same institute for over 13 years (2009–present). Professor Gedanken's research metrics, namely H-index and citations, are 117 and 51510, respectively. His research interests include solid-state chemistry, catalysis, energy, materials science, and biochemistry.
