Dr. Shashanka Rajendrachari is currently working as an Associate Professor, Department of Basic Sciences, SR University, Warangal, India. Previously working as an Assistant Professor at Bartin University, Turkey in the department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He has obtained Ph.D. from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. He is the first recipient of the prestigious Powder Metallurgy Student of the Year award by the Powder Metallurgy Association of India for the year 2015 at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the prestigious "Young Scientist-2020” at the 4th International Scientist Awards ceremony on Engineering, Science and Medicine held in Chennai, India. His name is listed in the top 2% of best scientists in the world for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 as reported by Stanford University, USA, and published by Elsevier. He was awarded 3rd place for the project competition in the 5th R&D Project Market, held at Turkey, 2022. He is experienced in preparing nano-structured stainless steel powders, high entropy alloys, and shape memory alloys by the mechanical alloying method. He has a more than 8 years (Research/Teaching) experience and published more than 80 research articles, one German patent, 18 books and 15 book chapters in various peer-reviewed international publishers. He has more than 3500 citations. His areas of research are powder metallurgy, mechanical alloying, nanomaterials, corrosion, electrochemical sensors, etc.