Affiliation: Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India -686 560

Professor Sabu Thomas is the chairman of the Trivandrum Engineering Science & Technology Research Park (TrEST Research Park). He is also the director of the School of Energy Materials and the former vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University. Additionally, he is a full-time professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is also the founder, director, and professor at the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IIUCNN). With an extensive career in research, he has 1,000 publications, authored 150 books, and has accumulated 111,560 citations, along with an impressive h-index of 150.