Dr. Akhtarul Islam Amjad is an assistant professor in the Department of Fashion Technology, Panchkula, India. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.Tech. in Textile Engineering and management. With a decade of experience, he has worked as an academician, researcher, and industrialist. His research interests encompass sustainable production, apparel manufacturing, textile testing, clothing science, traditional textiles, and technical textiles. As a researcher, he has authored more than 50 research papers in international journals and conferences and contributed to several books. Additionally, he has received a research grant from AICTE and consulted various textile industries in India for process optimization. Furthermore, he is a certified auditor of Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001:2015) and has successfully organized more than 10 workshops and technical events at the national level.
Dr Britta Kalkreuter is an Associate Professor of Design Studies and the Director of Research at Heriot-Watt University’s School of Textiles and Design. Her academic career began in Architectural Heritage and developed with a keen focus on its connections to socio-political factors and diverse communities during doctoral research at Trinity College Dublin and Cologne University. Dr. Britta further deepened her expertise in the social dimensions of heritage through her work at Germany’s Haus der Geschichte and as Cultural Studies Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, and since joining Heriot-Watt University’s Design School she has developed interdisciplinary collaborations to explore heritage's role in innovation, with a particular focus on the transition design framework.
Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay is currently a Professor in the Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. His research addresses issues on sustainability, encompassing synthetic and natural fibers, composite materials, green processing methods, technological interventions in the handloom sector, waste-to-wealth technologies, and development of 2D materials for sustainable applications. Dr. Mukhopadhyay has been associated with various handloom clusters of the country for over a decade working on various technology driven initiatives. He has been the PI of a project on Handloom in NER (Assam), India. He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Academic Affairs of the Indian Institutes of Handloom Technology (Ministry of Textiles, Government of India) looking into the curriculum and other academic activities. He has been the recipient of C V Raman Award (Acoustical Society of India), Eminent Engineer Award, IIE (India), and has been in the list of Elsevier top 2% scientists (2023,24).