Prof. C. N. Murthy is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai where he obtained his M. Sc (Chemistry), M. Tech. (Materials Science) & Ph.D degrees. He has about three years’ industrial experience with M/s Johnson & Johnson and 30 years of teaching & research experience at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He is a fellow of the Gujarat Science Academy and has worked on a number of research projects funded by national funding agencies like BRNS, DST, CSIR, DRDO, UGC and UGC-DAE apart from funding and collaborations from private industry and holds three patents. He was a Brain Pool Fellow (2015-2016) at Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), South Korea and was a visiting professor at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. He was the Head of the Applied Chemistry Department (2004-2010) and Dean at Faculty of Technology & Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.