Biographical note

Dr. Mumtaz A. Quraishi is a Chair Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Advanced Materials at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry in 1986 from Kurukshetra University, India, and D.Sc. in corrosion inhibition in 2004 from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has published more than 400 papers in reputed international journals and has been teaching for over 40 years. He is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. He has received several prestigious awards, including Life Time Achievement Award (International Science Congress Association, ISCA), Meritorious and Excellence in Corrosion Award (NACE, India), MASCOT award (ECI, India), Vigyan Ratna Award (CST, India) and is a member of Editorial Board of many International Journals. His current research area is designing of green corrosion inhibitors. Dheeraj Singh Chauhan has received B.Sc. (Hons.) (2002), and M.Sc. (2004) degrees from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India and Ph.D. (2012) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, BHU). Soon after, he joined Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2013-2015). He was a Senior Research Fellow at IIT BHU during 2016-2017. Currently he is working on the development of corrosion inhibitors for oil and gas industry. Viswanathan S. Saji is an Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. His current research interest lies in electrochemistry and energy materials.