Shantanu K. Karkari was born in Chhattisgarh, India. He received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in science from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India, in 2002. From 2001 to 2004, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, U.K. From 2004 to 2010, he was a Senior Research Fellow with Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India. His research interests include technological applications of plasma physics in industrial and fusion research.