Dr. H.B. Muralidhara has completed B.Sc. from Bangalore University, M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Kuvempu University, Karnataka. Subsequently he joined as Assistant Professor and Head-R&D Chemistry at K.S. Institute of Technology, VTU, Bangalore in 2010 and served for a period  of  four  years.  He worked as Assistant Professor at Center for Emerging Technologies, Jain University, Bangalore for about two and half years. Dr.Muralidhara main research domain includes water & energy. He completed 02 projects in the same field and other 02 were ongoing. Dr.Muralidhara has authored about 60 research articles and 02 book. He has supervised 03 PhDs, and more than 30 M.Tech./B.Tech./M.Sc. students. Apart from basic and applied research He is also associated with projects having societal relevance and industrial/consultancy projects in the area of environment and electrochemistry. He delivered many invited/plenary lectures. Dr.Muralidhara is the recipient of “MRSI Medal” by Materials Research Society of India. Also the recipient of best oral award in conference, top cited articles award and best reviewer award from Elsevier.