Handbook of Material Engineering in Nanobiomedicine and Diagnostics

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Prof. Uday Pratap Azad is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Physical Sciences Department of Chemistry Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (GGV) Bilaspur Chhattisgarh India. He received his Ph.D. degree from Banaras Hindu University Varanasi India. Before joining GGV as Assistant Professor he worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pusan National University and Yonsei University respectively for over three years. He has also worked as National Post-Doctoral Fellow at IIT(BHU) Varanasi India. He is the recipient of several prestigious fellowships e.g. President Fellowship (South-Korea) Brain Korean Fellowship (BK-21) South-Korea and National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (SERB India). He has expertise in electrochemical sensors biosensors Fuel cells energy storage electrochemical water splitting etc. His research interest includes various kinds of nanomaterials metal complexes metal oxides and nanocomposites based Modified electrodes for various electroanalytical applications. He has a better understanding of nano-electrochemistry and is associated as a reviewer in more than 30 peer-reviewed international journals. He has almost five years of teaching experience and more than 5 years of research experience excluding the experience gained during Ph.D. tenure. Recently he has published one Handbook of Nanobioelectrochemistry in Springer Nature and three other books are on various stages of publication in reputed publishing houses. He has also published more than 50 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Prof. Pranjal Chandra is an Associate Professor at the School of Biochemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi India. He earned his Ph.D. from Pusan National University South Korea and did post-doctoral training at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel. His research focus is highly interdisciplinary spanning a wide range in biotechnology nanobiosensors material engineering and biomedical devices. He has designed several commercially viable biosensing prototypes that can be operated for onsite analysis in the arena of biomedical diagnostics and environmental monitoring. He is an associate editor / editorial board member for various international journals including Scientific Reports Microchemical Journal Green Analytical Chemistry etc. He has been appointed as Advisor for the Biomedical Sensors Domain and Sensor Networks Systems at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) London. He is also a member of International Centre for Sensor Science and Engineering Chicago Illinois USA. Dr. Chandra has authored more than 175 publications including research / reviews papers and invited book chapters. He is an accomplished inventor of 14 patents and has also co-edited 14 books on various aspects of biosensors / medical diagnostics / material engineering. He has guided 5 PhD students and currently he is supervising 13 graduate students (PhD and MTech) and a Post Doctoral Fellow. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards and coveted honours such as: Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society; Shakuntala Amirchand Award by Indian Council of Medical Research; FSSAI: Eat Right Award; Prof. B K Bacchawat Young Scientist Award Medal from National Academy of Sciences Member of INYAS_INSA DST Ramanujan fellowship; Early Career Research Award; BK -21 and NRF fellowship South Korea; Technion Post-Doctoral Fellowship Israel; Young Scientist Award of Biotech Research Society India; Young Engineers Award; Dr. Chandra is also listed among the worlds top 2% scientists from last 4 years by Stanford University USA.