Dr Sanjeev Gautam leads an independent research group, the Advanced Functional Materials Lab., at Panjab University, India. He has 25+ years of experience with over 161+ (h-index = 33) international publications. He completed his PhD (2007) in condensed matter physics at the Centre of Advanced Study in Physics, Panjab University. He worked as a grid computing administrator for the CMS (LHC) project. Then at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (2007–2014) he was awarded a star-post doc. At Panjab University (2014 onwards), he received international and national grants in the field of nanotechnology sustainable energy, food technology, catalysts, and environmental safety. He supervised 7 PhD and serves as an editorial board member for Scientific Reports, Materials Letters, Materials Letters: X and Heliyon.