Dr. Ajeet K. Srivastav is an Assistant Professor in Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He has been a DAAD Fellow at Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden (Germany). He is also a recipient of the Early Career Research Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (Department of Science and Technology, Government of India). He has been recently featured as 2021 Crystal Growth & Design Emerging Investigator in a special virtual issue by American Chemical Society. His research mainly focuses on designing nanostructured materials for structural, functional and environmental applications. His group has published numerous research papers in various reputed international journals from Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, Springer-Nature, and Taylor and Francis.