Dr. Kiran Shinde is currently working as Research Professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanbat National University, Daejeon, South Korea. He was awarded Ph.D in Physics from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India in 2012. After graduation, he joined as Postdoctoral Fellow at Korea Institute of Material Science (KIMS), Changwon, Korea and also worked at different national institutes in Korea such as Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Korea Electrotechnlogy Research Institute (KERI), Changwon, and Chungbuk National University, Cheongju. His research interest is focused on magnetocaloric materials, magnetic materials, perovskites, high entropy alloy, and nanomaterials for energy applications. He attended international conferences and delivered talks at Singapore, USA, Poland, Germany, and South Korea. He has published more than 50 peer reviewed research papers in SCI indexed international journals and holds 2 US patents.