Pranjal Chandra - Nanobiomaterial Engineering: Concepts and Their Applications in Biomedicine and Diagnostics

is currently employed as Assistant 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 his postdoctoral training at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. His research focus is highly interdisciplinary, spanning a wide range in biotechnology, nanobiosensors, material engineering, nanomedicine, etc. He has designed several commercially viable biosensing prototypes that can be operated for on-site analysis for biomedical diagnostics. He has published four books on various aspects of biosensors/medical diagnostics from IET London, Springer Nature, and CRC Press, USA. He has also published over 85 journal articles in topmost journals of his research area. His work has been greatly highlighted in over 300 topmost news agencies globally including Rajya Sabha TV; DD Science; Science Trends, USA; Nature India; Vigyan Prasar; Global Medical Discovery, Canada; APBN Singapore; Business Wire; Dublin; etc. He is Recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships, such as DST Ramanujan Fellowship (Government of India); ECRA (DST, Government of India); BK-21 and NRF Fellowship, South Korea; Technion Postdoctoral Fellowship, Israel; NMS Young Scientist Award; BRSI Young Scientist Award; Young Engineers Award 2018; RSC Highly Cited Corresponding Author Award (general chemistry); ACS/Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer Awards; etc. He is Reviewer of over 40 international journals and Expert Project Reviewer of various national/international funding agencies. He is Associate Editor of Sensors International and an Editorial Board Member ofMaterials Science for Energy Technologiesby KeAi and Elsevier;World Journal of Methodology, USA;Frontiers in Bioscience, USA; andReports in Advances of Physical Sciences, Singapore.