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THE CONTRIBUTORS

Debendra Chandra Baruah has been engaged in teaching, research, andoutreach activities in
renewable energy, energy management and agricultural mechanization for 30 years. Has published
more than 100 articles. His administrative responsibilities at Tezpur University over past 10 years
include: Intellectual Property Right Cell; Internal Quality Assurance Cell; Dean, Students Welfare;
Head, Department of Energy.
Praveen Chaddah was the Director of the UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research during
2005-2013. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, of the Indian Academy of Sciences,
and also of the National Academy of Sciences of India. Prof. Chaddah is also an elected Member of the
Asia Pacific Academy of Materials.

Ajanta Deka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Girijananda Chowdhury Institute
of Management and Technology, Guwahati, India. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Tezpur
University, India in 2011 in the field of metal nanoclusters.

Ramesh Ch. Deka is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences, Tezpur
University. He did his Ph.D. at NCL, Pune. He worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in Tokyo University,
Japan and as Alexander von Humboldt fellow at Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Shridhar R. Gadre served as a Professor of Chemistry at SPPU, Pune (1980-2010) and IIT Kanpur
(2010-2016), continuing as a Distinguished Professor at SSPU from 2016. He has mentored many
postgraduate and doctoral students in Chemistry/Scientific Computing and received several national
recognitions. His zeal in teaching and research continues unabated.

Manmohan Gupta is presently working as Professor Emeritus at Panjab University. He did his PhD
in Theoretical Physics under the renowned Professor Asoke Mitra of Delhi University and did post-
doctoral work under Nobel Laureate Professor Glashow at Harvard University. Professor Gupta has
made several well recognized contributions in the field of Flavor Physics.

Vinod K. Jain received his D. Phil. in Physics from Sussex University, Brighton, UK. He is currently
Vice Chancellor of Tezpur University, Assam. He has also served at Doon University, Dehradun as
Vice Chancellor. Earlier, he was a Professor at JNU, New Delhi.

Subhash C. Lakhotia is BHU Distinguished Professor and SERB Distinguished Fellow at the Zoology
Department, Banaras Hindu University, has been engaged in research and teaching for nearly 55 years.
He has made pioneering contributions to polytene chromosome organization, cell stress genes, long
non-coding RNAs and Ayurvedic biology using the Drosophila model.

Gaurangi Maitra, MNASc, is a Ph.D. in Molecular Endocrinology. She has extensive experience
as a teacher, author, and science historian. She has served the DBT Nodal Centre and the UGC
CARE East Zone, since their inception at Tezpur University. She is currently the editor at
gaurangimaitra.com
Pulok K. Mukherjee is Director, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Department
of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, is associate editor of Journal of Ethnopharmacology; Fellow of
the Royal Society of Chemistry, of National Academy of Sciences, India, and of National Academy
of Agricultural Sciences. Prof. Mukherjee has to his credit more than 220 publications and several
patents. He has authored/edited seven books.
Shubhada Nagarkar is a Fulbright scholar, currently Associate Professor, Department of Library and
Information Science, and Coordinator, Centre for Publication Ethics (CPE), Savitribai Phule Pune

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