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Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.

Frank Lipnizki is Professor in Chemical Engineering with focus on Separation Process in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lund University, Sweden since 2017. Furthermore, he heads the Membrane Group at Lund University and manages MemLab – the Industrial membrane process research and development centre – at Lund University. Before joing the university Frank Lipnizki was working for 16 years in the membrane industry at Alfa Laval Business Centre Membranes (previously Danish Separation Systems). His main research focuses on the integration and optimisation of separation process in particular membrane processes in the food, biotech, pulp and paper industry as well as water and wastewater treatment plus fouling and cleaning of membranes. Frank Lipnizki prepared has 35 scientific papers in peer to peer journals and 91 papers in international congresses plus 59 seminars and workshop presentations. Furthermore, he edited 3 conference proceedings plus 1 book and contributed 15 book chapters. He is also refree for 32 journals and on the editorial board of three journals. Frank Lipnizki is currently Vice-President of the European Membrane Society and heads the Annex “Membranes in Biorefineries” by IETS – a collaboration program of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Viswanathan Swaminathan is the founder and Executive Director of Memfill Tech Pvt Ltd, Indigenous Hollow Fiber Membrane Manufacturer. This industry has solutions for desalination, effluent treatment, sewage treatment and silica removal and wastewater resource recovery using hollow fiber membranes.

Hanna J. Maria is a Senior Researcher at the School of Energy Materials and the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Her research focusses on natural rubber composites and their blends, thermoplastic composites, lignin, nanocellulose, bionanocomposites, nanocellulose, rubber-based composites and nanocomposites.

Jince Thomas is the Chief Minister’s Nava Kerala Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, India. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor on contract at the same institution. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University in 2022 under the guidance of Prof. Sabu Thomas. During 2016-2017, he worked as a project assistant on an Indo-Malaysian project in collaboration with University Technology Mara, Malaysia. Additionally, he was a visiting student at Ariel University in Israel and the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA. Dr. Jince has contributed to numerous publications, book chapters, and edited books, with his research interests focused on polymeric membranes, electrolytes, polymer nanocomposites, and electrochemistry.