Dr. Pratap Kumar Deheri is an Assistant Professor (II) at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar. He has prior academic and industrial research experience as a Project Scientist/Postdoctoral Fellow at NISER, Bhubaneswar, and as a Research Scientist at ShayoNano Singapore. He earned his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, with research on Nd–Fe–B based magnetic nanomaterials, and holds an M.Tech from IIT Bombay and an M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry. His research focuses on nanomaterials and functional composites, with over 30 peer-reviewed publications, eight filed patents, and Springer book chapters.