Prof. Dr. Venkata Krishnan completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2006 from University of Stuttgart, Germany. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. from 2006 to 2010 and then as a research associate at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan from 2010 to 2012. He joined as a faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi in April 2012 and is currently a full professor. His research group is mainly working in the field of Green Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis for Energy and Environment Applications. He has successfully guided 13 Ph.D. and 35 M.Sc. students and is currently guiding 1 postdoc, 10 Ph.D. and 5 M.Sc. students, in addition to several short-term research interns. Prof. Krishnan has published more than 200 articles in well reputed international journals, 14 book chapters and has been granted 6 patents. He has an h-index of 65 as per Google Scholar. In addition to being a reviewer for several scientific journals, he serves as an Associate Editor of the New Journal of Chemistry, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS ES&T Engineering, published by the American Chemical Society (ACS). He has been bestowed with several awards, including CRSI Bronze Medal, MRSI Medal, DST INSPIRE faculty award, IIT Mandi foundation day award for excellence in teaching, MANA research fellowship, DoE postdoctoral fellowship, DFG doctoral fellowship, DAAD visiting scholar fellowship, etc. Besides teaching and research, he has served IIT Mandi in various administrative positions, such as first warden of the main hostel in permanent campus, founding coordinator of Advanced Materials Research Center (AMRC), Associate Dean Research and Dean of Sponsored Research, Industrial Consultancy, and International Relations (SRIC & IR). He has also served as Director of IIT Mandi Catalyst (a technology business incubator) and Director of IIT Mandi iHub and HCi foundation (a technology innovation hub). He also serves on several scientific and administrative committees at institute, national and international levels. Apart from academics, he likes reading books and is interested in linguistics.