Nikhil K. SinghaNikhil K. Singha is Professor at the Rubber Technology Centre in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. Prof. Singha received his PhD degree from IIT Bombay in 1996, while doing most of his research work in National Chemical Laborator (NCL), Pune, India. He worked in multiple places in the Netherlands, including DSM Research at Geleen, Dutch Polymer Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology and TNO Industries at Eindhoven, before moving to IIT Kharagpur in 2003. He also worked as a DAAD Fellow in the Leibniz Institute for polymer research, Dresden, Germany in 2011 and as a Fulbright Fellow in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA in 2013. Prof. Singha was Chair of the Rubber Technology Centre during 2016-2019. His research interests include synthesis of tailor-made polymers, block, graft and star copolymers, thermoplastic elastomers, functional polymers and elastomers having dynamic linkages leading to self-healing, shape memory and bio-applications, and sustainable materials and processes. Read More Read Less