Prof. Suresh C. Pillai obtained his PhD in the area of Nanotechnology from Trinity College Dublin and then performed postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. Upon the completion of this appointment he returned to Trinity College Dublin as a Research Fellow before joining CREST-DIT as a Senior Research Manager in April 2004. Suresh joined IT Sligo as a Senior Lecturer in Nanotechnology in October 2013. He is an editor for the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR, Springer) and Editorial Board Member for the Chemical Engineering Journal and Applied Catalysis B (Elsevier).