Ranjith Ramadurai, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India, where he has taught since 2011. Previously, he worked on international research projects in France and as an Alexander Von Humboldt fellow in Germany. Dr. Ramadurai is the author of over 65 peer-reviewed articles and is a book contributor. His research awards include IIT's Excellence in Teaching Award, the DAE-BRNS Young Scientist Research Grant, and the MRSI Young Researcher Medal.

Saswata Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India, where he has taught since 2013. He carried out his postdoctoral research at Penn State: The Pennsylvania State University and worked as a Materials Scientist at General Electric India Technology Center. He is author to more than 35 peer-reviewed article and was a guest editor for the special issue on Phase-Field Methods for Pattern Formation for the Journal of Indian Institute of Science in 2016. He earned IIT's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. He contributed extensively to the development of open-source software package “MicroSim” for high-performance phase-field simulations.