Partha Pratim Mondal, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where he earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 2005. He was a researcher at MIT, USA, and University of Genova, Italy. Professor Mondal has been a visiting professor at University of Maine, Orono, USA, and MIT, Cambridge, USA. He has over 75 journal publications to his credit and is co-author of the book Fundamentals of Fluorescence Microscopy (Springer) and author of Light Sheet Microscopy and Imaging (AIP Publishing). Dr. Mondal's specialized areas of research include super-resolution microscopy, microfluidics, imaging cytometry, optical tweezers, light sheet technologies, fluorescence microscopy, and nanolithography. He served as an editorial board member for several distinguished journals, including AIP Advances (AIP Publishing), Microscopy Research and Technique (Wiley), and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (Frontiers).