Mahendra Rai
Professor Mahendra Rai is a visiting scientist at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. He has published more than 450 research papers, more than 102 journal articles, and 75 books. He is a member of several scientific societies and has been a national scholar for five years. He received several prestigious awards, including the Father T.A. Mathias Award (1989) from the All India Association for Christian Higher Education, and the Medini Award (1999) from the Department of Environment and Forest, Government of India. He also received a SERC visiting fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology (1996), an INSA visiting fellowship from the Indian National Science Academy (1998), and TWAS-UNESCO Associateship (2002), Italy. Dr. Rai was also awarded a UGC-BSR faculty fellowship by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi (2017–2020) and an NAWA fellowship by the Polish Government (2021–2023). He serves as a referee for twenty international journals and is an editorial board member of ten national and international journals. He has approximately three decades of teaching and research experience. The focus of his research is plant- and nano-based bioactives against human pathogenic microbes.