Dr. Ruchir Priyadarshi is working as a Brain Pool Fellow (2019-present) at the Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. (2018) from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in Biodegradable Food Packaging. He served as Head of Biopolymer Innovations at Yash Papers Ltd. India (2018-2019), where he worked on developing bagasse-based molded tableware products. He has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2012. His research interests include active food packaging, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, and bionanocomposites. He has published over 50 research articles, review articles, and book chapters in reputed peer-reviewed international journals and books. Dr. Priyadarshi also serves as a reviewer for international journals like Food Hydrocolloids, LWT Food Science and Technology, Nanomaterials, Polymers, Food and Bioprocess Technology, Scientific Reports, etc., and editing special issues for the journal Coatings. His current h-index is 18, i10 index 24, and his works have been cited >1300 times.