Dr. Manoj K. Patel received his B.Tech degree from NIT Jamshedpur and completed his PhD from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi. Currently, he is working as a senior principal scientist at CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh and an honorary professor at AcSIR. His research interests include food safety and nutrition, 3D Food printing, green energy, electrostatic liquid atomization, airborne charged particulate technology, surface decontamination, precision agriculture, UAVs and aerial electrostatic spraying, and social innovations. Dr. Patel has transferred eight (08) technology know-how to various industries for commercial production and created three (03) startups. Dr. Patel has received several awards; the most prominent are: the Young Achiever Alumnus Award 2024, the BRICS Young Scientist Award 2022, the CSIR Young Scientist Award 2020, the IETE-Hari Ramji Toshniwal Award 2020, the IEI Young Engineers Award 2019, the NRDC National Societal Innovation Award 2017, the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award 2016 etc. He is a recipient of the CSIR Raman Research Fellowship from CSIR (2024-2025), the Post Graduate Research Program for Engineers (PGRPE) Fellowship from CSIR (2010-2012), and the TATA Cummins Meritorious Scholarship from TATA CUMMINS (2009-2010). Dr. Patel is a Fellow of the Indian Social Science Academy (ISSA) and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). Currently, he is serving as a secretary of the Electrostatics Society of America (ESA), USA, and an external member of the Board of Studies (BoS) of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur.