Meet the editors

Daisuke Tashima received his doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in material and energy engineering from the University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, in 2008. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Agriculture, at the University of Miyazaki since April 2008, as an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Research Organization, at the University of Miyazaki since January 2010, as a researcher of Interdisciplinary Research Organization at the

University of Miyazaki since April 2014, as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) since April 2015, as an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the Faculty of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology since April 2018. Currently he is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology. His research interests include supercapacitors, battery, and metal-air fuel cells.

Dr. Aneeya Kumar Samantara, Ph.D., is presently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Khurda, Odisha, India. Additionally, Dr. Samantara is working as an advisory board member on the editorial board of a number of publishing houses. Recently, he is a community board member of Materials Horizons, one of the leading journals in materials

science of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), London. He has authored 27 peer-reviewed international journal articles, 15 books (with S*pringer Nature, Nova Science, ArclerPress, and IntechOpen*), and eight book chapters. Several publications are in the press now and are expected to be published soon. He pursued his master's degree (MSc) in advanced organic chemistry at the Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, and Ph.D. at CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Dr. Samantara's research interests include the synthesis of metal oxide/chalcogenides and graphene composites for electrochemical energy storage and conversion applications.

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