Dr. Chinnappan Baskar is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Academic In-charge, THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India. He has received his M. Sc. Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and PhD in Organic and Materials Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore under the direction of Prof. Suresh Valiyaveettil. He has joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry, Lovely Professional University (LPU) as a Reader then promoted to Head of the Department (2006­2009). He moved to the Department of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology, Myongji University, South Korea in September 2009 as a Brain Korean 21 (BK21) Research Professor and co-researcher in Energy and Environmental Fusion Technology Center, Myongji University. He has worked as Director (Academic Affairs), Dev Bhoomi Group of Institutions, Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Dr. Baskar research interests include synthetic organic chemistry, conducting polymers, green chemistry, production of biofuels and fine chemicals from biomass, ionic liquids, and membrane science separation. He has published several research papers in reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He was invited to attend and deliver lectures/seminars in international and national conferences & workshops. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board member and referee for many international chemistry, materials science, biotechnology and energy journals.

Dr. Shikha Baskar obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India under the guidance of Prof. Ranjit S. Dhillon and received postdoctoral training at Myongji University. She has joined as Sr. Lecturer/Assistant Professor and Head of Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab. She is currently Visiting Faculty of Chemistry at THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Tehri, Uttarakhand. Her current research interests are in the areas of synthetic organic chemistry, green chemistry, ionic liquids, and production of biofuels. She has authored few peer-reviewed journal articles and attended many national and international conferences and workshop.

Dr. Ranjit S. Dhillon is a retired Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He received his PhD from PAU under the direction of Prof. P. S. Kalsi. He spent three years as a Post­doctoral Fellow with Nobel Laureate Prof. Akira Suzuki at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Dr. Dhillon has supervised 12 PhD students and 20 M. Sc. students in the areas of chemoselective green methodologies, natural products and their bioactive studies, and synthesis of eco-friendly Agrochemicals. His research work mainly ‘‘versatile boranes and borohydrides’’ carried out at PAU was cited by Nobel Laureate Late Prof. Herbert C. Brown in his research articles and many other eminent scientists. Professor Dhillon has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers and one book chapter. He is the author of Hydroboration and Organic Synthesis (Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2007).