Vijay Kumar Thakur is currently a Professor in the Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Centre at SRUC, Edinburgh, U.K. He holds an Adjunct Professor position in the Research School of Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu University, China and is a Visiting Professor at Shiv Nadar University, India, and Visitor at Cranfield University, U.K. He has previously held faculty positions at Cranfield University, U.K., Washington State University, U.S.A., and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research activities span the disciplines of Biorefining, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials Science, and Nanotechnology, as well as all aspects of Sustainable and Advanced Materials. He has published over 200 SCI journal articles, 2 patents, 50 books, and 37 book chapters in areas concerning polymers, nanotechnology, and materials science. He sits on the editorial board of several SCI journals (e.g.,?Nature Scientific Reports,?Journal of Renewable Materials,?Advances in Polymer Technology,?International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization,?Polymers for Advanced Technologies,?Biomolecules,?Nanomaterials,?Surfaces and Interfaces,?Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy,?Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, and?Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects) as an Editor or Editorial Advisory Board member.