Prof. Dr. Rita Khanna is a visiting professor at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China (formerly at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). She holds a PhD in condensed matter physics and has worked at several leading institutes, such as the Nuclear Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; the Department of Atomic Energy, India; Australian National University, Canberra; Sydney University; and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She has extensive research experience in high-temperature metallurgical processes, iron and steelmaking, computer simulations, disordered materials, sustainable recycling and waste management, nanoscale carbons, foams and structures, and carbon-based oxide refractories.