B Viswanathan is a renowned scientist and a distinguished teacher. He has been with the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, since 1970. His research spans areas such as heterogeneous catalysis, materials science, theoretical chemistry, energy, nanotechnology, and information science. He has published several research papers and books, and won awards and fellowships at the national and international levels. He is also the author of Chemical and Electrochemical Energy Systems (published by Universities Press India Limited), one of the unique books in the topic.
M Aulice Scibioh is a Senior Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and is currently a Visiting Research Scientist at the Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul. She has worked in the area of fuel cells and its frontier components. She has several publications to her credit and has been actively engaged in chemistry education.