Dr. Saurabh Bhatia is a pharmaceutical biologist with almost 14 years of research and academic experience in a multitude of transdisciplinary research related to sustainable packaging. In his role as an Associate Professor in the NMSRC at University of Nizwa, he is working in a team with an objective to encourage research in biopolymers based thin films as sustainable packaging materials. He holds dual expertise in Pharmaceutical and Food sciences to explore potential of biopolymers based composite materials especially biopolymer based packaging films. He has earned his Ph.D. Degree (2015) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.  His current area of interest research lies in the field of applied polymeric chemistry or material science more specifically based on development, characterization and biological assessment of biopolymer based composite films for sustainable packaging applications. To date his research has resulted in to more than 120 publications in journal of high repute with an exceeding citation of more than 6000. He has also authored 11 books with leading publishers. To know the current trends in packaging research he is also serving as reviewer, associate editor, EBM in several journals.