Sapto P. Putro was born in Tebing Tinggi (South Sumatera), December 26, 1966. He graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Jenderal Soedirman University, Purwokerto in 1992. Then he continued his Master degree in Ecology at Post Graduate - the Bandung Institute of Technology and graduated in 1999. Doctoral (PhD) in Marine Ecology & Aquaculture obtained from the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Flinders University of South Australia in 2007. His professorship was granted in 2021 in Marine Biology. He has spent many years studying on aquatic ecology, especially biomonitoring of aquaculture activities, in lakes, rivers, coasts and offshore and coastal aquaculture, both in tropical and temperate areas.
The author is currently a Senior Lecturer in the field of ecology and aquaculture at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Diponegoro University, Indonesia. The author is actively involved in national and international scientific conferences and is a member of the Indonesian Biological Association (PBI), Indonesia Aquaculture Society (IAS) and World Aquaculture Society (WAS), as well as editorial boards in various international journals. The author actively publishes several articles in reputable international journals and books. His current research focuses on developing smart productive-sustainable aquaculture by applying Integrated Multi- Tropical Aquaculture (IMTA) using Stratified Double Net Cage as his patent granted innovation (Patent No. IDS000001488, August, 8th 2016; Trademark “KJABB-IMTA SP01” No. IDM000661772, August, 24 th 2017; DJKI RI;). The KJABB-IMTA product has been selected as one of the 110 Most Prospective Indonesian Innovation Works 2018 by the Business Innovation Center (BIC) (p.254-255/288).
He is also developing software for biomonitoring application using abiotic and biotic (macrobenthic structure) data and it has been registered with copyright (No. 000143025, EWS- 3SWJ software, January, 16th 2019, DJKI RI). He has set up and developed a research center called Center of Marine Ecology and Biomonitoring for Sustainable Aquaculture (Ce-MEBSA). His current on going project is developing smart modern sustainable aquaculture, a multidisciplinary approach research based that set up in aquaculture zone, Karimunjawa Islands, funded by the Directorate General of Higher Education (Ditjen Dikti) through Matching Fund-Kedaireka.

Professor Saidur Rahman is currently working as a Distinguished Research Professor and Head of the Research Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology (RCNMET) at Sunway University. Previously he worked as a chair professor in the Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy at KFUPM. Prior to joining KFUPM, Prof. Saidur worked 18 years in University of Malaya, a premier research University in Malaya. Thomson Reuters/Clarivate analytics awarded him highly cited researcher for being among the top 1% researchers for most cited documents in his research field for the last 8 years (2014-2021) in a row. Professor Saidur also won highest accumulation citation award from the University of Malaya for the last four years (2011-2014). Prof. Saidur published more than 500 journal papers and majority of them are in top ranking journals. He has about 70,000 citations with an h-index of 134 in Google Scholar. He has supervised more than 80 postgraduate students so far. He secured and managed more than 25 million ringgit research grants as PI and member from different funding agencies. He has built impressive lab facilities with state of art lab equipment in his research area. Professor Saidur is currently working in the area of emerging nanomaterials such as MXene, graphene, CNTs, their hybridization and applications in Energy storage, solar energy, heat transfer, energy efficiency areas.

Dr. Anjum Nazir Qureshi, is working as Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering Research & Technology, Chandrapur. She is a certified life coach, motivational speaker and certified meditation trainer. She has published 20+ research papers, 3 patents, 26 articles and authored 5 book chapters. She is author of a book "10 Core Life Skills". She has been evaluator for grand finale of Toycathon-2021 and prescreening round of Smart-India Hackathon 2022 organized by Ministry of Education and AICTE. She has received awards like Educational Excellence Award, Young Educator and Researcher Award, Best Woman Faculty Award and has been listed among the Top 50 influential Researchers in Indian higher Education for the year 2020. She has been a resource person for many seminars and workshops for school and college students. She has conducted trainings at district level and national level. She has worked for two international documentary films of UNICEF.