Editors
- Series Editor
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- Vijay Kumar Thakur
About the Editor
Vijay Kumar Thakur is Professor and Founding Head of the Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Centre at SRUC, Edinburgh, UK. He also holds an Adjunct Professor position in Jiangsu University, Riga Technical University, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES), and is a Visiting Professor at Shiv Nadar University and Visitor at Cranfield University, UK. Before commencing his tenure at SRUC, Vijay has previously held faculty positions at Cranfield University, Washington State University, US, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received PhD in Polymer Chemistry (2009) and did his post-doctoral study in Materials Science & Engineering at Iowa State University (US). His group's current research efforts focus on the design, synthesis, characterization, and applications of monomers/ polymers from biorenewable resources; biomaterials; environmental remediation; utilization of waste materials; biofuels and biobased products; recycling; intelligent materials; functional surface coatings; polymer aerogel/hydrogel, photocatalysis, sensing, nanotechnology and nanomaterials.
He has published over 300 SCI journal articles, 2 patents, 52 books, and 45 book chapters in his academic career. In 2020, he was ranked 154th in the world's top scientists list in the "Polymers" field that Scopus Database has compiled for Career Long Impact; and Highly Cited Researchers' list (2020) by Clarivate’s Web of Science. Vijay is an editorial board member of several SCI peer-reviewed international journals and a member of scientific bodies around the globe.
Editorial BoardAdriana Kovalcik, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Anuj Kumar, Yeungnam University, South Korea
Ali Zarabi, Sabancı University, TurkeyAjeet Kaushik, Florida Polytechnic University, US
Amir Sheikhi, Pennsylvania State University, US
Chuanxiang Chen, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, ChinaDarshil U. Shah, University of Cambridge, UK
Dilpreet Bajwa, Montana State University, US
Dilip Depan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US
Ebrahim Mostafavi, Stanford University, US
Elisabete Frollini, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Eneko Larraneta Landa, Queen's University Belfast
Graham Christie, University of Cambridge, UK
Hafiz Iqbal, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Kamal Dua, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaLi Gao, South East Water, Australia
Maya Jacob John, CSIR, South Africa
Miao Guo, King's College London, UK
Prasanth Krishna, Cochin University of Science and Technology Kochi, IndiaPrabodh Sharma, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University, India
Pardeep Singh, Shoolini University, Solan, India
Qilin Wang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Raju Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Samy A. Madbouly, Pennsylvania State University, US Saurav Goel, London South Bank University, UKSergejs Gaidukovs, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Stefan Ioan Voicu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Sotirios Grammatikos, NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Venkata Krishnan, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, IndiaYahya Choonara, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa
Yifeng Zhang, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Yogendra Kumar Mishra, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark