**Meet the editor**

Pramoda Kumar Nayak is currently a senior researcher at the Centre for Low Dimensional Carbon Materials, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. He received his doctoral degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. After completion of his Ph.D, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and visiting scientist in several institutions

around the globe such as the Institute for Plasma Research, India, the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, before coming to South Korea. His research interest is focused on two-dimensional materials, including transition metal dichaclogenides (TMD), graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (*h*-BN). He has published more than 40 international journals, 5 book chapters and 1 book.
