Chandra Sekhar Tiwary completed his Ph.D. studies in 2014 in Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India. He then went for his post-doctorate training at the Rice University, Texas, USA and finished it in 2017. In 2017 he joined IIT Gandhinagar as an Assistant Professor and then since 2018, he is an Assistant Professor in IIT Kharagpur in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. Prof. Tiwary’s research group works in the multiple fields including – porous materials, 2D materials, metal-intermetallic composites, 3D printing and bio-inspired materials. His aim is to explore the possibility of usage of these materials to solve global challenges facing human society.