Ruchir Priyadarshi is a Brain Pool Fellow at the Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in Biodegradable Food Packaging. In 2018, he served as Head of Biopolymer Innovations at Yash Papers Ltd., India, where he worked in the development of bagasse based molded tableware products. He has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2012. His research interests include active food packaging, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, and bionanocomposites.