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Rajib Biswas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Sciences, Tezpur University, India. He pursued his Ph.D. from CSIR-NEIST, India. He has published 175 articles in peer-reviewed international journals along with 45 book chapters. He has also published three patents and has edited seven books in reputed publishers such as Springer, CRC Press, Nova Science Publishers etc. His research interests include material pho¬tonics, 2D materials, sensors and instrumentation. He has received research funding from various funding agencies, including BIRAC and MoES. He has been recognized as scientists ranked in top 2 percentile by c-score in the sub-field for the year 2025. He is a life member of the Earthquake Society of India, Indian Physics Association and an emeritus member of the Optical Society of America. Currently, he serves as an associate editor in Frontiers in Physics, Discover Nano, Discover Applied Science, Scientific Reports, Current Physics, etc. He made several poster/oral/invited presentations at national and international conferences.

Dr. Nirmal Mazumder is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biophysics, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2013 from Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan under the guidance of Prof. Fu-Jen Kao. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, USA, and the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy. He has been developing nonlinear optical microscopes, including two photon fluorescence, second harmonic generation, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering for biomedical applications. His research interests include development of microscopy-spectroscopy techniques, biomedical devices, biophotonics, smart materials, food science and technology and its biomedical applications. He has published more than 140 research articles in the peer-reviewed international journals, 21 books, 50 book chapters, and several poster/oral/invited presentations in National and International conferences. He has been recognized as scientists ranked in top 2 percentile by c-score in the sub-field for the year 2023, 2024, 2025. He received distinguished alumni award from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan in 2024. He is working on several national and bilateral research projects funded by Government of India as Principal Investigator. He is also working as the reviewer/guest editor/associate editors in several prestigious journals. He is the member of several national and international scientific societies and organizations including, the Optical Society (OPTICA) (Senior member), SPIE—the International Society for Optical Engineering (Senior member), Society of Biological Chemists (I) (Life Member), Environmental Mutagen Society of India (Life Member), Asian Polymer Association (Life Member), Indian Laser Association-ILA (Life Member), Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India – RSSDI (Life Member).