Kishore Sridharan obtained his Ph.D. from Hanyang University, Republic of Korea in August 2014 and his doctoral thesis was conferred the Best Dissertation Award. Subsequently, he was selected for the Brain Korea 21-Plus Postdoctoral Fellowship. In August 2015, he was selected for the prestigious DST INSPIRE Faculty Award by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, with which he worked in the Department of Physics of National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India. Currently, he is working as UGC-Assistant Professor in the Department of Nanoscience and Technology of the University of Calicut. He was selected under the “Faculty Recharge Programme” – a flag-ship scheme launched by the University Grants Commission for recruiting talented faculty at the national level to strengthen high quality research at internationally competitive levels and promote innovative teaching. His research interests are focused on the fabrication of functional nanostructured materials for visible light driven photocatalysis applications.