Chandra Sekhar Rout is a Full Professor at the Centre for Nano & Material Sciences (CNMS) at Jain University in India. He received his Ph.D. from JNCASR, Bangalore, in 2008. He conducted his postdoctoral research at National University of Singapore, Purdue University, and UNIST in South Korea. He was awarded the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship and Young Scientist Award of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, in 2013, the emerging investigator award 2017 from Elsevier, the IAAM medal 2017 from the International Association of Advanced Materials 2017, and the young researcher award from Venus International Foundation in 2015. Prof. Rout has authored over 200 research papers in international journals and edited four books with an h-index of 56 and total citations >13,000. He was ranked in the top 2% of scientists in India by Stanford in 2020–2023.