Dr. Pralay Maiti is currently a senior professor and ex-coordinator in the School of Materials Science and Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi. Prof. Maiti has received his Master in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1991 and Ph.D. in Polymer in 1996 from The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Jadavpur University). He was COE Researcher and Lecturer at Venture Business Laboratory, Hiroshima University, Japan (1997-1999) and was post-doctoral fellow at Toyota Technological Institute, Japan (1999-2001). He was Visiting Scientist at Cornell University, USA from 2002 to 2004. He was Quick Hire Fellow at Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai before joining the School of Materials Science and Technology as Reader in December 2004.