Prof. Sarat Kumar Swain is currently working as a Professor of Chemistry and Director (IQAC) at the Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Sambalpur, since 2011. Before joining VSSUT, he had been working in the North Orissa University (Now renamed as Sriram Chandra Bhaanja Deo University), Baripada up to Associate professor of Chemistry. Added to his academic credits, Prof. Swain has discharged various administrative positions like Dean (Academic Affairs), Dean (PG studies & Research), Head of the Department of Chemistry, Chairman estate committee and First Applet Authority of the VSSUT. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA after receiving his Doctoral degree from Utkal University. Prof. was also working as a visiting researcher at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced and Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in teaching and research in Organic Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Polymer Chemistry at UG, PG and PhD levels. His area of research interest includes hybrid nanomaterials, reinforced polymer nanocomposites, advance materials like graphene, nanoclay, CNT, CNF, CQD for improving of gas barrier, fire retardant, thermal, mechanical and chemical resistance properties of the composites. He has designed various kinds of nanostructured materials for waste water treatment, packaging, anti-corrosion performance, superconductor properties, sensing behaviors and biomedical applications. There are eighteen scholars are successfully awarded PhD degree along with more than fifty PG thesis are completed with supervision of Prof. Swain. He has published more than 150 research papers in different SCI indexed international journals of repute and chapters various edited books/encyclopedia. So far, he has authored/edited 07 books in reputed international publisher like three in Springer one in Elsevier and one in RSC along with inventions of two patents (One USA and One Indian). He has more than 5000 with H-index of 40 and i-10 index of 120 as the outcome his research. Prof. Swain has received different awards such as BOYSCAST Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology, Government of India & DAE-Young Scientist Research Award from Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India and Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award and Gold Medal from Odisha Bigyan Academy, DST, Government of Odisha, India for outstanding research contribution in the area of Physical Science.