Dr. Bapan Adak is a JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher at Kyoto University, working in the area of sustainable and high barrier packaging materials. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the NTU Singapore (School of Material Science and Engineering). He holds a BTech (in 2010), MTech (in 2015), and PhD (in 2019) in textile, polymer, and materials science. His PhD work was on “Multifunctional polyurethane nanocomposite films and textile laminates for defence applications”. He also has six years of industrial work experience in managerial positions, having experience of working with chemical processing of textiles and polymer coated/laminated textiles for multidirectional applications. He has a good publication record in the form of papers in high-impact factor journals (including a review paper in Progress in Material Science, with current impact factor 33.6), books, book chapters, and conference presentations. Importantly, he authored one book on ‘single-polymer composites (Publisher: CRC Press + Taylor & Francies)’ and edited a book ‘smart and functional textiles (Publisher: De Gruyter)’. His research areas focus on polymer nanocomposites, coated and laminated textiles, functional and smart materials, wearable electronics, sustainable materials, and flexible packaging materials.