Charu Lata Dube is M.Tech. in Solid State Materials and Ph.D. in Physics from IIT Delhi. She completed her Ph.D. in collaboration with Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA. Dr. Dube represented IIT Delhi (as a contingent) under SAARC-IAESTE Japan internship program 2008 at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. The internship was focused on synthesis of pig iron using microwave energy. She joined the Institute for Plasma Research Gandhinagar as visiting scientist. In 2015, she moved to the University of Sheffield as PDRA. There, she was involved in research and teaching Master's students. In 2017 she joined School of Nano Sciences, Central University of Gujarat as Assistant Professor. Presently, she is involved in the microwave assisted synthesis of materials ranging from metal to insulators. Several funding agencies such as DST-SERB, UGC-DAE have generously funded her research. Dr. Dube has nearly 20 years of experience in the area of Microwave processing of Materials and has published nearly 50 articles in the area.