Dr. Bonamali Pal obtained his Masters degree in Physical Chemistry from Central University of Viswa Bharati, West Bengal, India in 1991 and did PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India 1998. He is currently a Professor (2014-2023) and worked as a Head (March, 2014 - May, 2017) in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Thapar University Patiala (Pb) India. He received prestigious Monbusho Fellowship, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kyushu, Japan and worked as a research Scientist for 6 years in the Catalysis Research Centre, Hokkaido University, and Japan Science and Technology Agency. He presented his research work in different international and national conferences in Japan, Malaysia, Switzerland, Dubai and India. His research interest includes synthesis, characterization of noble metals and semiconductors nanoparticles of different shapes and sizes for various photocatalytic applications under UV/solar irradiation. He guided 17 Ph.D. students (currently 11 PhD students) and 50 Master thesis/students, published 160 SCI research papers in the most reputed journals, granted 03 Japanese patents and got many sponsored research projects (Rs. 3.0 Cores) from DST, DBT, CSIR and UGC Government of India. He reviewed international research project submitted to natural science foundation of Austria and Spain and 9 PhD thesis from different reputed Universities of India.