Sharadwata PanDr. Sharadwata Pan obtained his tertiary education (Bachelors and Masters in Technology, 2002-2007) in Biotechnology in India. Following this, he obtained his PhD degree in 2015, working in an interdisciplinary area transcending molecular biotechnoloy and polymer physics, via a unique, dual-badged programme between Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia. Since 2016, he is working in Germany, first as a scientific staff at the Technical University of Munich (2016-2023), and currently (2023-to date), in the same capacity at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. For the past 6 years or so, his main expertise encompass developing the next generation of patentable healthcare, cosmetics and biomedical products, partnering with German SMEs and raising third party research grants (> 1M €) to carry out cutting edge and application oriented research, primarily targeted towards industrial product development. His main focus lies on generating sustainable solutions and specializes in benchmarking existing commercial products and conceptualization of innovative techniques to tune novel prototypes. Read More Read Less