Balanand Santhosh is currently working as a Research Assistant Professor at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Trento, Italy till June, 2022. He graduated in B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) in 2011 from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. In 2013, he received his M.Tech degree from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India in Production and Industrial Engineering. He started his research career in 2013 at CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, India as a Project Fellow and later moved to Amrita University, Coimbatore, India as a DRDO-Senior Research Fellow in 2015. He joined the Department of Industrial Engineering (Glass and Ceramics Lab), University of Trento, Italy for his Ph.D. in 2017 and obtained the Ph.D. in 2020. Balanand Santhosh’s basic research interests include polymer-derived ceramic processing, cold sintering, mechano-chemical processing of ceramics, functional ceramics, green synthesis, nanoceramic filler-polymeric composites, the adhesive joining of metals, and surface engineering.