Introduction of the Speaker

Dr. Himansu Sekhar Nanda received his Ph. D in Materials Science and Engineering (2011-2014), majoring in Biomaterials from Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. He holds the background of B-Tech in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology. He was a post-doctoral fellow in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Oct 2014- Jan 2016) and a Post-doctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (Feb 2016-Sept 2017). Since October 2017, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur. He holds the adjunct appointment as an Assistant Professor at College of Materials Science and engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology and a visiting Scientist Sate Key Lab of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, China. He has edited for the special issue “Biomaterials: Future of Biomaterials 2021” in “Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering” (Elsevier) and currently a guest editor of a special issue "Biodegradable Polymers for Biomedical Applications" in Journal “Frontier in Materials” and “Intelligent Biomaterials” in Journal “Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering”. Dr. Nanda is currently heading the Biomedical Engineering and Technology (BET) Laboratory at Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, IIITDM Jabalpur. He is a young and well-known expert in the field of Biomaterials having effective research collaboration with the global leaders in the field.

His current research interests include the design, development, and manufacturing of emerging materials for various biomedical applications. E.g., clinical grade bioadhesives, smart hydrogels, new generation polymer scaffolds, medical membranes and so on.