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Dr. Laura Fisher is an Executive Editor for RSC Advances, RSC Mechanochemistry, and RSC Pharmaceutics at the ÍâÍøÌìÌà (RSC). She joined the RSC in 2014 and previously worked as Publishing Editor and then Deputy Editor for the journals Soft Matter, Polymer Chemistry, Biomaterials Science, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, and MSDE.
She holds a master's degree in chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath, where she studied Hâ‚‚, COâ‚‚, and Nâ‚‚ adsorption in metal-organic frameworks. After leaving Bath she completed a postdoc at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, before leaving research to begin a career in publishing.
She is also an advocate for improving inclusion and diversity in publishing and worked on updating the RSC’s author name changes policy, as well as acting as an inclusion and diversity representative within the organisation. She also has a keen interest in publishing ethics, having played a major role in the RSC’s paper mills investigation during 2020.

Dr Donna Arnold is Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Forensic Science at the University of Kent. Her PhD, undertaken at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, focussed on the structure and electronic properties of porous manganese oxides. She has since worked at the Foundation for Research and Technology in Crete and undertaken postdoctoral research at the University of St Andrews. Her research on functional nanomaterials at University College Cork earned her national recognition for her role in the design of the first patterned substrates manufactured by Intel to meet key research needs.

Professor Dalip Kumar is a Senior Professor of Chemistry at Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He received his Ph. D degree from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana in 1997. After his doctorate, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Sam Houston State University, TX, USA, University of Texas at Austin, USA and University of Maryland, College Park, USA. In 2004, Professor Kumar joined BITS Pilani as an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry. He has been involved in research for the last 25 years and in teaching for 17 years. As a result of his research accomplishment, he has around 130 international publications in peer reviewed journals. He has guided thirteen Ph.D students and currently he is supervising nine Ph.D. students. He has one US patent, one Indian patent and handled several projects from DST, DRDO, UGC, CSIR, DBT and DST-JSPS. Birthday Commemoration Medal and Prize-2015 (Indian Chemical Society). For year 2018, he has been chosen to deliver Platinum Jubilee Award Lecture by Indian Science Congress Association. Currently he serves as an Associate Editor of Chemistry & Biology Interface Journal published by Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, Lucknow. He is life members of Indian Science Congress Association, Indian Chemical Society, Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, and Indian Council of Chemists. His current research pursuit is focused on synthesis of indole and porphyrin derived potential anticancer agents by employing transition-metals and organoiodine reagents. Bronze Medal-2017 (Chemical Research Society of India) and Prof. R. D. Desai 80th. Professor Kumar is recipient of Honorary Diploma for Scientific Achievements and International Scientific Collaboration-2013 (Russian International Charitable Foundation “Scientific Partnership”, Moscow, Russia)

Professor Vandana Bhalla obtained her PhD from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar in 1998. She is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Her area of research includes the development of supramolecular functional materials, catalysis, and photocatalysis. She has published around 215 research papers in international journals and has received a number of prizes including the Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award 2015, the Prof S. S. Sandhu Endowment Award 2017, and the AV Rama Rao prize for women in Chemical Sciences.

Professor Akhila K. Sahoo was born in 1972 at Bhubaneswar (Odisha), India. He completed doctoral study at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune under the supervision of Prof. Ganesh Pandey in 2001.
He worked as a postdoc researcher at the RWTH-Aachen-Germany with Prof. Hans-Joachim Gais (2002), Prof. Tamejiro Hiyama, Kyoto University, Japan (JSPS; 2002-2004), and finally with Prof. Atsuhiro Osuka, Kyoto University (2004-2006). He then worked as a scientist at the Sai Advantium Pharma Limited (2006-2007), Hyderabad.
He then joined the School of Chemistry [Assistant Professor (2007-2012), Associate professor (2013-2016)] University of Hyderabad. Currently, he is working as Professor. His research interest revolves in the development of novel transformations on metal-catalyzed C-H activation, Au-catalyzed synthetic methods, and construction of strained N, and O-rich energetic materials. He is a Member of the ÍâÍøÌìÌà and Member of the National Academy of Science, India.

Professor Arvind Kumar Bansal is currently Dean and Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) - SAS Nagar, Punjab, India. His areas of research include pharmaceutical material characterization, improvement of aqueous solubility using solid - state modification techniques like amorphous form, nanocrystals and co crystals, compaction physics and phase behaviour during lyophilisation. His research group works with the mission statement - ‘developing science based industrially viable pharmaceutical technologies’ and works closely with pharmaceutical industry to create opportunities for commercial exploitation of the products. Before joining NIPER, Prof Bansal worked as Senior Scientist and Group Leader in JK Pharmaceuticals and Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, for 8 years. He earned his M Pharm (Pharmaceutics) (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) from University of Delhi, India. Dr Bansal was conferred prestigious Fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2016. He is the first Indian, working in India, to be awarded AAPS Fellow status.

Dr Aparna Ganguly completed her graduation and post- graduation in Chemistry from University of Delhi and subsequently obtained her PhD in Materials Chemistry under the supervision of Professor A. K. Ganguli at IIT Delhi. After a short stint at teaching Physical Chemistry at Central University of Rajasthan, she moved back to the Nanoscale Research Facility, IIT Delhi as a scientist where she worked extensively on porous materials and their applications. In 2014, she joined the ÍâÍøÌìÌà where she is currently the Editorial Development Manager and manages the journal portfolio and their growth in India.  As a part of her role, she works quite extensively with the scientific community, various Indian chemical societies, and researchers across various disciplines of Chemical Sciences and support the journal teams.