Vinay M. Bhandari worked as Chief Scientist and Professor-AcSIR (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India) at Chemical Engineering & Process Development Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. He also has independent industrial experience of 2 years. He worked as a visiting faculty at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan in 1998-99 and also as visiting scientist at Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea during 2004-05. Dr. Bhandari guided several graduate and post-graduate students and has worked as a consultant to many industries. He has more than 250 publications/presentations, two books and has filed 26 Patents (11 Patents granted, including US/WO Patents).