Dr. A. K. Tyagi is currently Dean and Senior Professor at the Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India. He is also an Honorary Professor at JNCASR, Bengaluru. Other recent positions include as Director of the Chemistry Group, Director of the Bioscience Group (both at BARC), and Distinguished Scientist (DAE). He completed postdoctoral research at Max-Planck Institute, Germany (1995-96), and has since received numerous prestigious awards for his work. Dr. Tyagi’s research interests cover areas of nanomaterials, functional materials, nuclear materials, metastable materials, and hybrid materials. He has published over 650 papers in international journals, 12 books, and several review articles, as well as having guided 47 PhD students to date. He is also a Fellow of various national and international science and engineering academies, and has been a Visiting Scientist at various institutions in Europe, Asia, and South Africa.