Melkie Getnet Tadesse is an Assistant Professor in Textile Chemistry at the Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology (EiTEX), Bahir Dar University. He received his BSc and MSc in Textile Technology in 2007 and 2013, respectively, at EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. He received his Ph.D. in Textile Material Technology in 2019 from three universities i.e., the University of Borås (Sweden), Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of IASI (Romania), and Soochow University (China) through the European Commission Funding the so-called SMDTex. He has been awarded internal postdoctoral research since 2021/22 from the ExiST project through KFW funding. His areas of interest are intelligent and functional textiles, supercapacitors, conductive textiles, recycling, textiles, and plasma technology. He used COMSOL multiphysics, ANFIS, and CNN applications in functional textile modeling. Currently, he is working on his postdoc with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany in the area of flexible and sustainable supercapacitors for energy storage applications.