IIT Kharagpur

Joan-Emma Shea received her B.Sc. with first class honors in from McGill University in MontrŽal, QuŽbec, Canada. She then earned her Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the advisement of Professor Irwin Oppenheim. While at MIT, she was awarded a graduate fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Upon graduating from MIT, Dr. Shea was awarded a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship and spent three years at the University of California, San Diego, working jointly with Professors Charles L. Brooks III and JosŽ Onuchic. In 2000, Dr. Shea was hired as an assistant professor with the Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. In 2001 she moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2006, she was promoted to the rank of associate professor and followed that in 2008 with a promotion to full professor. In this time, Dr. Shea was awarded an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, a David and Lucille Packard award, and the Cottage Hospital Biomedical Award.

Srinivasan Sampath is a professor at the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His group’s research interests center around interfaces related to electrochemical systems. He uses various classes of materials based on layered chalocogenides, transition metal nitrides and carbides, thin molecular films and organic polymers to understand the solid-liquid; solid-solid and liquid-like / liquid interfacial properties. In addition to various awards, he is an elected fellow of the Science and Engineering academies in India and The World Academy of Sciences, Italy.

Dr. Biswarup Pathak is a distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at IIT Indore, India, where he leads the Computational Materials Designing Research Group. His research lies at the intersection of computational modeling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, focusing on their applications in chemistry and materials science. With over 300 publications in high-impact international journals and more than 8000 citations, Dr. Pathak has made significant contributions to the integration of machine learning techniques in advancing the field of chemistry and materials.

Mihir Jha is currently a Team Lead in Global Editorial Strategy at ACS Publications where he is involved in developing products and services to improve author experience and to drive the influence of ACS Publications journals. Prior to joining ACS in 2021, Mihir earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Masters from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. In the current role, he manages a team of Development Editors who work in collaboration with global ACS staff from different divisions to drive editorial strategy and smooth functioning of editorial workflows.

Sujan Sekhar completed his Bachelor’s and Master of Technology in Chemical Engineering from GIET Univ and MBA from University of Pune. Over the 2 decades Sujan worked to support research community with their information requirements both from society publishers like IET UK/ACS and commercial publishers like Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate). In his role, he has also been responsible for new customer development along with outreach. Sujan along with the team at ACS Publications ensures that researchers across India have a clear understanding of the ACS publications offerings; can access subscribed content to make informed decisions in their day-to-day research activities; and can utilize all resources available to them to support their research.