Dr. Pranjal Chandra is currently employed as an assistant professor at the School of Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. He earned his Ph.D. from Pusan National University, South Korea, and conducted post-doctoral training at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. His research focus is highly interdisciplinary, spanning a wide range of biotechnology, nanobiosensors, material engineering, nanomedicine, etc. He has published 17 books on various aspects of biosensors/medical diagnostics with IET London, Springer Nature, CRC Press USA, and Elsevier. He has also published over 124 journal articles in leading journals of his research area. He has designed several commercially viable biosensing prototypes that can be operated for onsite analysis in biomedical diagnostics. He has received many prestigious awards, coveted honours, and fellowships, such as the DST Ramanujan Fellowship (Government of India); the Eat Right Research Award—2022 from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI); the Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize 2020 from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR); the Early Carrier Research Award (ECRA) (DST, Government of India); the BK-21 and NRF fellowship, South Korea; the Technion Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Israel; the Nano Molecular Society India Young Scientist Award; and the Biotech Research Society India (BRSI) Young Scientist Award.