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Dr. Laura Fisher is an Executive Editor for Å·ÃÀAV Advances, Å·ÃÀAV Mechanochemistry, and Å·ÃÀAV Pharmaceutics at the Å·ÃÀAV (Å·ÃÀAV). She joined the Å·ÃÀAV in 2014 and previously worked as Publishing Editor and then Deputy Editor for the journals Soft Matter, Polymer Chemistry, Biomaterials Science, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, and MSDE.
She holds a master's degree in chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath, where she studied Hâ‚‚, COâ‚‚, and Nâ‚‚ adsorption in metal-organic frameworks. After leaving Bath she completed a postdoc at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, before leaving research to begin a career in publishing.
She is also an advocate for improving inclusion and diversity in publishing and worked on updating the Å·ÃÀAV’s author name changes policy, as well as acting as an inclusion and diversity representative within the organisation. She also has a keen interest in publishing ethics, having played a major role in the Å·ÃÀAV’s paper mills investigation during 2020.

Dr Donna Arnold is Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Forensic Science at the University of Kent. Her PhD, undertaken at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, focussed on the structure and electronic properties of porous manganese oxides. She has since worked at the Foundation for Research and Technology in Crete and undertaken postdoctoral research at the University of St Andrews. Her research on functional nanomaterials at University College Cork earned her national recognition for her role in the design of the first patterned substrates manufactured by Intel to meet key research needs.

Dr. Monika Gupta earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Delhi and completed her Ph.D. at IISER Mohali in 2018 under Prof. Santanu Kumar Pal, focusing on discotic liquid crystals for optoelectronic applications. She conducted postdoctoral research at The University of Tokyo (2018–2020) and the Institute for Basic Sciences, Seoul (2020–2021). A recipient of the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship, she worked at IIT Ropar until February 2025. Her current research at IIT Jodhpur centers on the molecular design of visible light-responsive liquid crystals for solar thermal fuels, with aims to improve photoisomerization efficiency, energy storage duration, and heat release control. She has received several accolades including the IUCr Young Scientist Award (2016), SERB-ITS Grants (2016, 2024), the WISER Grant (2023), and the JLCS Award (2023).

Professor Kaushik Chatterjee received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow jointly at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health, USA. He then joined the Indian Institute of Science, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering. He also serves as the Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at IISc and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances. His research group focuses on materials for biomedical applications and particularly on the use of 3D printing and additive manufacturing technologies for healthcare. 

Dr. Raviraj Vankayala is currently working as an Associate Professor at Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, IIT Jodhpur.  His research interests include nanomedicine, biomaterials, theranostics, and drug delivery.  He has published more than 65 papers in the renowned journals. He earned his PhD degree in Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University (2012), Taiwan and his postdoctoral studies were performed at National Tsing Hua University (2015) and University of California Riverside (2017), USA. He worked as a Chief Technology Officer for Radoptics LLC (2017-2019) for the development of biomimetic nanoconstructs for imaging and therapeutic applications of cancer and vascular diseases. He secured prestigious DBT Ramalingaswami biomedical fellowship for the year 2018-2019. He has secured an Outstanding Researcher Award for his contributions in the field of Nanobiotechnology by IIT Jodhpur for the year 2021. He served as a Guest Editor for various special issues in the MDPI and Frontiers journals. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Drug Delivery journal and as an editorial board member for the Scientific Reports and Particle journals. He has secured the prestigious 2024 Rising Stars in Biological, Medicinal, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry by the American Chemical Society.

Dr Aparna Ganguly completed her graduation and post- graduation in Chemistry from University of Delhi and subsequently obtained her PhD in Materials Chemistry under the supervision of Professor A. K. Ganguli at IIT Delhi. After a short stint at teaching Physical Chemistry at Central University of Rajasthan, she moved back to the Nanoscale Research Facility, IIT Delhi as a scientist where she worked extensively on porous materials and their applications. In 2014, she joined the Å·ÃÀAV where she is currently the Editorial Development Manager and manages the journal portfolio and their growth in India.  As a part of her role, she works quite extensively with the scientific community, various Indian chemical societies, and researchers across various disciplines of Chemical Sciences and support the journal teams.