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Dr. Subodh Srivastava is Professor of Physics at the Vivekananda Gglobal University Jaipur, India. He holds a PhD in Physics in field of Nano composite materials based sensors from University of Rajasthan in year 2010. Then He has been joined as CSIR Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Dr. Srivastava is author or co-author of about 100 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and presented his research in various international conferences, seminars and workshops at a number of institutions in India and abroad. He is a member of various professional societies. His research interest includes synthesis of carbon nanostructured based low cost hybrid composite materials for energy and gas sensor application.

Dr. Satyapal Nehra is Assistant Professor at Centre of Excellence for Energy & Environmental Studies (CEEES), Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology, Murthal, Sonepat (Haryana) India since 2011. He holds a PhD in Physics in field of Solid State Materials for hydrogen storage applications from the University of Rajasthan in year 2011. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Iowa State University, Ames and UC Santa Barbara, California, USA. Dr. Nehra is author or co-author of about 120 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and delivered seminars at a number of ion beam institutions in France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and USA. He is a member of various professional societies, including the BASE Fellow, Raman Fellow, National Renewable Energy Fellow, Member of Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), INSA, Max Planck Alumni Ambassador in India. His research includes Energy storage materials and devices, Nanomaterials for environmental applications including gas sensing, water splitting, wastewater treatment and photo catalytic activity.

Dr. Shubhra Mathur has completed her Ph.D. in field of synthesis of Rare earth oxide based compositesand their electric and magnetic properties from Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan in year2016. She served as Assistant Professor of Physics at different prior institutions of Jaipur during 2016 to2023 and at present she is working as DST-Women Scientist at Department of Physics, Malviya NationalInstitute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, India. Dr. Shubhra is author or co-author of peer-reviewedpapers in leading international journals and delivered seminars at a number of prestigious institutions inIndia during various international events. She is a member of various professional societies. Her researchgroup focuses on fundamental and applied research for engineering the properties of the materialsand developing advanced materials for energy applications. She also works on 2D materials particularlyMXenes based composite for gas sensor and super capacitor application applications.

Dr. Arjun Kumawat is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, India. He obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, and completed his M.Sc. (Master of Science) from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India. His research interests focus on the low-cost, scalable, and eco-friendly thermal exfoliation synthesis of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials using waste carbon sources, along with thin films and hybrid composites based on 2D carbon nanomaterials such as graphene and MXene-like nanosheets for hydrogen sensing and supercapacitor applications. He has published 7 papers in the reputed international journals and 6 conference proceedings, along with 6 additional papers accepted in conference proceedings but not yet published. He is currently serving as a guest editor for the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics for a special issue featuring selected papers on experimental materials research. He received the best oral award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.