Rajendra R. Deshmukh received the M.Sc. degree in physics from North Maharashtra University Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India, in 2002. He has more than 25 years of teaching experience at UG and PG level. He has visited The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, under TEQIP for three months, in 2007. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, from 2009 to 2010. He is currently working as a Registrar and a Professor of physics with the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) at Mumbai, Matunga, Mumbai. He has published about 125 research articles in international journals of high repute. He has authored ten book chapters. His main fields of current scientific interests are material science, plasma technology, polymer physics, and functionalization of nanoparticles; molecular tailoring of surfaces using plasma for biomedical applications, textile physics, PECVD, thin films, and electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystals; polymer nanocomposites materials; and conducting polymers and gas sensors. Dr. Deshmukh is on the editorial board of a few international scientific journals.