Vijay Kumar Thakur is a professor and the founding head of the Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Centre at SRUC, Edinburgh, UK. He also holds an adjunct professor position in Jiangsu University, Riga Technical University, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES), Chandigarh University, and is a visiting professor at Shiv Nadar University and visitor at Cranfield University, UK. Before commencing his tenure at SRUC, Vijay has previously held faculty positions at Cranfield University, Washington State University, USA, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received PhD in polymer chemistry (2009) and did his post-doctoral study in materials science & engineering at Iowa State University (USA). He has published over 350 SCI journal articles; 52 Books; 40 Book Chapters and 2 Patents. He sits on the editorial board of several SCI journals.