M.Sc. Avinash Kandalam (ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8333-0798) did his master’s (2013-2017) in Metallurgical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He was selected in the Swiss-European Mobility Program for pursuing his master's thesis at the Laboratory for Nanometallurgy at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Since 2018, he has been pursuing doctoral studies at the Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy and Purest Materials (INEMET), TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), and is expecting to graduate in 2026. From 2018 to 2021, he was a research associate at ZIK Virtuhcon, Institute for Energy Process Engineering, TUBAF. Since 2022, he has been employed at Glencore Nordenham and currently serves as Operational Metallurgical Manager.