Professor Sreekantha B. Jonnalagadda has been a Senior Professor of Chemistry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) since 2003. He is an elected Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2012), South African Chemical Institute (2014), African Academy of Sciences (2015), and A.P. Academy of Sciences, India (2017). With over 11,000 citations and H-index 47, Prof. Jonnalagadda published 470+ research papers and review articles in many reputed and high-impact journals. He is consistently among the top 30 researchers of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and participated in over 150 research conferences in 48 countries, primarily as a plenary or invited speaker. His research interests include green chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, value-added conversions and water chemistry.