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Akhila Kumar Sahu, Senior Scientist, serving Central Electrochemical Research Institute - Madras Unit, CSIR Madras Complex, Chennai since 2008. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Madras, India in 2009. He was a Senior Research Fellow at National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, during the period 2002-2005. In 2005, he joined Central Electrochemical Research Institute as a Senior Research Fellow and became Research Associate in the same institute during 2006-2008 and devoted his research work to the ¿eld of Materials Sciences and Fuel Cell Technologies. He worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher, at DGIST, Daegu, South Korea, for 1 year during 2012-2013. Presently, he has about 77 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, 3 international patents, and 1 book chapter to his credit. His present research activities include the development of composite membranes for PEMFCs operation at elevated temperature and reduced relative humidity, new membrane materials for mitigating methanol cross-over in DMFCs, Synthesis of nano-porous/mesoporous carbon materials for fuel cell electrodes, Pt-based, non-precious and non-metallic electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), etc.

Bhim Charan Meikap, Professor& Head Department of Chemical Engineering serving the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur since 2004. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2001. In 2004, he joined the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), in Bangkok, Thailand as Visiting Assistant Professor. He also worked as an Assistant Professor National Institute of Technology since 1997. He was also the Chairman, of GATE/JAM 2015, Vice-Chairman, of GATE/JAM 2014 & 2013His recent work on CO2 adoption has been widely appreciated. He has received Excellence Award from NBCFDC, Ministry of Social Justice, Govt. of India awarded to IIT Kharagpur for demonstrating successfully the CSR project and recipient