Meet the editors

Dr. Soumen Dhara is a senior-grade assistant professor at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, India. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. He then obtained a prestigious JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at Kobe University from the government of Japan. He continued his research as a senior postdoctoral fellow at a number of institutions, including S. N. Bose Na-

tional Centre for Basic Sciences, India, the University of Cambridge and Cardiff University, UK, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience and has published over 36 research articles and a review article in high-profile international journals (SCI indexed) as well as three book chapters. He has edited two international peer-reviewed book projects. His research interests are semiconductor nanostructures (nanowires, thin films, heterostructures), optoelectronics, solid-state lighting and light sensors, and spectroscopy of nanomaterials including ultrafast laser spectroscopy and thin-film transistors.

Dr. Gorachand Dutta is an assistant professor at the School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He obtained his Ph.D. in biosensors and electrochemistry from Pusan National University, South Korea, where he developed different classes of electrochemical sensors and studied the electrochemical properties of gold, platinum, and palladium-based metal electrodes. He completed postdoc-

toral fellowships in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Michigan State University, USA and the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, at the University of Bath, UK. His research interests include the design and characterization of portable biosensors, biodevices and sensor interfaces for miniaturized systems, and biomedical applications for point-of-care testing. He has expertise in label-free multichannel electrochemical biosensors, electronically addressable biosensor arrays, aptamer- and DNA-based sensors and surface bio-functionalization.
