Bishnu BastakotiDr. Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at North Carolina A&T State University. He earned his PhD at Saga University in Japan as a Monbukagakusho Scholar. He then joined the National Institute for Material Science as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow. Previously, he worked as a research associate at the University of Sydney and Harvard University. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles. He is working on a broad design challenge to control various structural properties, such as porosity, crystallinity, and pore size, in porous inorganic nanomaterials. He is especially interested in using highly porous nanostructured materials in catalysis and energy conversion. Read More Read Less