Viswanathan S. Saji is a Research Scientist-II at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia (2022–present). Before that, he was a Research Scientist-III at KFUPM (2018–2022), an Endeavour Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide (2014), Australia, a Research Professor at Korea University (2010–2013), a Senior Research Scientist at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (2009–2010), a Postdoctoral Researcher at Sunchon National University (2009), a Research Professor at Chosun University (2008–2009), a Postdoctoral Researcher at Yonsei University (2007–2008), and a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science (2005–2007) and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2004–2005). Dr Saji received his MSc (1997), MPhil (1999), and PhD (2003) degrees from the University of Kerala, India. He has authored more than 100 journal publications and contributed 13 books and 22 book chapters. He has delivered over 50 scientific conference presentations, invited talks, and seminars, and has been awarded several fellowships and grants. His current research interests lie in electrochemistry and materials science.
Vijayamohanan K. Pillai is a leading electrochemist in India who, after receiving his PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1989), has worked in many areas of electrochemistry for about two decades at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. He has authored over 280 publications and 30 patents related to many innovations in both electrochemistry and materials chemistry, while supervising about 28 PhD students in materials electrochemistry. His group has developed highly sensitive nanostructured electrocatalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells and many two-dimensional electrocatalysts including graphene and phosphorene quantum dots. His research interests include materials electrochemistry, functionalization of carbon nanotubes/graphene nanoribbons, and hybrid materials using many 2D systems for energy storage applications. He has received many honors and awards such as the MRSI and CRSI Medals and has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Materials Science from 2005 onwards, Electrocatalysis from 2012 and Scientific Reports from 2015, and has been a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences since 2008 and the Indian National Science Academy since 2018. He became a J. C. Bose Fellow of SERB in 2020 after joining IISER Tirupati in 2019. He is currently the Dean, R&D and Chair of Chemistry at IISER Tirupati.
