Professor H. B. Bohidar received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Physics) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1981.  He had a distinguished post-doctoral research career, during which he worked at University of Grenoble (1983-1984) in the area of polymer composites and at Institute of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway (1984-1988), following which he joined Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as an Associate Professor of Physics in the year 1989. He was a visiting Professor at Indiana-Purdue University (1999-2000), and at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2006).  His general area of specialization includes Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Molecular Biophysics and nano and biocomposites.  He has published close to 225 research papers in peer reviewed international journals, has filed 9 patents in the domain of nanoscience, and  has published two books: (i)  Polymer Science and Biophysics, Cambridge University Press, UK (2015), and (ii)  Design of Nanostructures, Wiley-VCH, Germany (2017). Currently,  affiliated with TERI-DEAKIN Center for Nanobiotechnology, Gurugram, NCR.