Prof. Arindam Banerjee received Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore(in 1997) and joined in Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India in 1998 as a lecturer in the department of Biological Chemistry and became a full professor with effect from December, 2009. He has published more than 160 research papers in various peer reviewed international journals and has supervised 25 Ph.D. candidates. His current research interest includes peptide based soft functional materials in health care and environmental remediation , nanohybrids, nanoclusters , and carbon nanodots. He is an Editorial Advisory Board member in Soft Matter, a RSC journal. Total citation of his research papers is more than 7900 with a h-index of 48. He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore)and also a Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry(RSC),U.K. (2014).