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Dr. Om P. Bahl is currently the President of the Indian Carbon Society and an Emeritus Scientist in the Carbon Technology Unit at the Council Of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), New Delhi. He has served on the Board of Directors of HEG Ltd and has been an R&D advisor to major scientific institutions and industries. Dr. Bahl served the United Nations as Chief Technical Advisor in Brazil in 1981 and as a UN Expert in Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland in 1988 and 1989.
He has edited several books, published numerous research articles, and successfully developed and transferred various carbon-related technologies to reputable carbon industries in India. He holds eleven patents for various carbon-related technologies.Dr. Swati Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi. Before joining IIT Mandi in 2019, she spent over five years as a Scientist and Group Leader at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Freiburg in Germany. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, USA, in 2013. Prior to that, she worked as a Researcher at UNIST, South Korea, for one year. She completed her B.E. (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, in 2004, and subsequently worked as a Research Scientist for over four years at Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Gurgaon. Her current research focuses on carbon materials and manufacturing, including the development of a new microstructural model for non-graphitizing carbons and the confirmation of fullerenes within this class of carbon materials. Dr. Marc Monthioux is Research Director Emeritus at CNRS and currently works at the Center for the Preparation of Materials and Structural Studies (CEMES) in Toulouse, France. He has decades of experience in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of various carbon materials, including natural sources like kerogens and coals, as well as technological materials such as fibers, composites, fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, and diamane. Dr. Monthioux has collaborated with numerous international companies and is Honorary Editor of Carbon and Advisory Editor of Carbon Trends (Elsevier). He is a former chairman of the French Carbon Society and the European Carbon Association. He hosted the World Conference on Carbon in 2009 and received the European Carbon Association Award in 2022. |
