Dr Thokala Soloman Raju obtained his M.Phil and Ph.D in Theoretical Physics, from the University of Hyderabad, India, under the supervision of Prof P K Panigrahi. He has held faculty position in several institutes in India that includes BITS-PILANI and IISER Tirupati. His research interests are mainly in the areas of Nonlinear Dynamics with particular emphasis on Solitary waves in Nonlinear Optical waveguides and Bose-Einstein condensates. ?