Yazar: Aswathy Jayakumar

Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai is Faculty member in the Center of Innovation in Design and Engineering for Manufacturing at the King Mongkut”s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand. He has published more than 80 journal articles and edited five books. He received numerous awards and recognitions including the prestigious Kerala State Award for the Best Young Scientists in 2016 and the INSPIRE Faculty Award in 2011. Radhakrishnan E. K. is currently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Biosciences of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, as Director of the Business Innovation and Incubation Centre (BIIC) and as Joint Director of Inter University Centre for Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture (IUCOFSA). He completed his doctoral degree from Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India in 2008 and did post-doctoral studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2010. His research area includes plant microbe interactions, microbial natural products microbial synthesis of metal nanoparticles, polymer-based nanocomposites for food packaging and medical materials with antimicrobial effects. Aswathy Jayakumar has obtained her Ph D in Biotechnology in School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. After her MSc in Biotechnology, she has completed an advanced degree in biosciences and has authored seven publications and contributed to five book chapters. She received the Best Paper Award in Biotechnology 2019 at the Kerala Science Congress. Her area of research is functional biology of endophytic microorganisms and nanotechnology-based food packaging systems. Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the King Mongkut”s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand. He received his Ph D from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India. His research areas include natural fiber composites and polymer composites. He has published more than 35 journal articles and several book chapters. Suchart Siengchin is President of the King Mongkut”s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Thailand. After his Ph D from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, he did Postdoctoral Research at the Kaiserslautern University and Purdue University, USA. He received the habilitation at Chemnitz University, Germany, in 2016. His research focuses on polymer processing and composite materials. He has published more than 80 journal articles.