Sampa Chakrabarti, PhD, is Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Calcutta, West Bengal. She obtained her BSc, BTech, MTech, and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from University of Calcutta, India. Before pursuing her PhD on the application of Chemical Engineering for environmental remediation, she worked in reputed engineering consultancy organizations in India for 11 years. Dr. Chakrabarti has published more than 60 research papers in reputed journals and conferences and has over 1200 citations till date. Her research interest includes photo- and sono-advanced oxidation processes for environmental remediation and sonochemical synthesis of nanoparticles with several applications, including synthesis of smart surfaces. She has also worked as visiting researcher at State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA and Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. Prof. Chakrabarti is a keen reader of literature, especially Bengali literature. She has also published several scientific articles in little magazines in simple Bengali to popularize science among common people