Prof. S. Chakraverty has 30 years of experience as a researcher and teacher. Presently, he is a Senior Professor at the Department of Mathematics (Applied Mathematics Group), National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha. He has authored/co-authored 30 books and published 418 research papers in journals and conferences. He is on the editorial boards of various international journals, including the IOP journal Engineering Research Express. He received the IOPP Top Cited Paper Awards 2021 and 2022 for most cited articles from India, published across the IOP materials journal portfolio in the past three years respectively (2018 to 2020 and 2019 to 2021).