Dr. Hemant Badwaik is presently working as an Associate Professor in Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. He has 13 years of teaching experience in the field of Pharmacy. He teaches Pharmaceutical Analysis and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at both undergraduate and post graduate levels. Dr. Badwaik has 40 scientific publications, along with two textbooks and four book chapters to his credit. Mainly a synthetic chemist, his research is focused on the synthesis and screening of novel organic molecules and modification of natural polymers. Dr. Hemant Badwaik is an Editorial Board Member of Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening (Bentham Science) and SF Journal of Pharmaceutical and Analytical Chemistry. In 2017, he received the Young Scientist Award (Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences) of the 15th Chhattisgarh Young Scientist Congress