Prof. Nihar Ranjan Pradhan is an Associate Professor in Physics at Jackson State University, Mississippi, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, MA, USA. After that, he obtained a joint postdoctoral position at Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before joining Jackson State University, he completed his second postdoctoral experience at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. His research interests are in the area of 2D materials, developing high-energy storage polymer nanocomposites and exploring the intrinsic electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of quantum materials such as two-dimensional semiconductors.