Proceedings of the International Symposium on Lightweight and Sustainable Polymeric Materials (LSPM23)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa is currently working as Senior Research Scientist/Associate Professor and also ‘Advisor within the office of the President for University Promotion and Development towards International goals’ at King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand. He received the B.Engg. (Mechanical Engineering) in the year 2010, M.Tech. (Computational Analysis in Mechanical Sciences) in the year 2013, Ph.D. (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Science) from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India, in the year 2018, and Postdoctorate from King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand, in the year 2019. He is Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Associate Member of Institute of Engineers (India). He is Associate Editor of Heliyon Elsevier (Materials Science) and Frontier Materials Journals and also acts as Board Member of various international journals in the fields of materials science and composites. 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Suchart Siengchin is President of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok. He has received his Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Applied Sciences Giessen/Friedberg, Hessen, Germany, in 1999, M.Sc. in Polymer Technology from University of Applied Sciences Aalen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, in 2002, M.Sc. in Material Science at the Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Bayern, Germany, in 2004, Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Dr.- Ing.) from Institute for Composite Materials, University of Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, in 2008, and Postdoctoral Research from Kaiserslautern University and School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, USA. In 2016, he received the habilitation at the Chemnitz University in Sachen, Germany. He worked as Lecturer for Production and Material Engineering Department at The Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering (TGGS), KMUTNB. He has been Full Professor at KMUTNB and became President of KMUTNB.