Life Cycle Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Natural Materials

Praveenkumara Jagadeesh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University), Mysuru, India. He acts as an Editorial Board Member and an Associate Editor for established journals. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering from Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, under VTU, Belagavi, India, in the academic year 2014-2018. He completed a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Manufacturing Science and Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, under Bangalore University, Bangalore, India, in the academic year 2018–2020. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng.) at the Sirindhorn International Thai German Graduate School of Engineering (TGGS), King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Thailand. He has received the “KMUTNB Doctoral Research Scholarship” for international doctoral students as of the year from 28/Dec/2021 to 27/Dec/2024 under the Government of Thailand. He also completed his Postdoc from King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Thailand from 2024-2025. He is recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier in the year 2025 in a single year citation impact. He is a Life Member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). He has published more than 33 articles in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals, 4 book chapters, and presented research papers at various national and international conferences. Based on Google Scholar he has more than 2900+ citations with an H-index of 25 and an i10-Index of 33. He is currently working on polymer composites, natural fiber composites, biopolymers, filler materials, the tribology of polymers, and additive manufacturing.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Suchart Siengchin is a former President of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok and currently serves as the Director of TechnoPark at the same university. He earned his Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Giessen/Friedberg, Germany in 1999, followed by an M.Sc. in Polymer Technology from the University of Applied Sciences Aalen in 2002, and another M.Sc. in Material Science from Erlangen-Nürnberg University in 2004. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the Institute for Composite Materials at the University of Kaiserslautern in 2008, including postdoctoral research at Kaiserslautern University and Purdue University's School of Materials Engineering. In 2016, he received his habilitation from Chemnitz University in Saxony, Germany. In 2024, he was honored as an Honorary Fellow by RWTH Aachen University. He has also served as a Lecturer in Production and Material Engineering at the Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering, KMUTNB, and has been a full Professor and President of KMUTNB. He received the Outstanding Researcher Award in 2010, 2012, and 2013 at KMUTNB. His research focuses on Polymer Processing and Composite Materials. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Science and Engineering Progress, a Q1 indexed journal on Scopus, and has authored over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles, 15 editorial contributions, more than 100 book chapters, one authored book, and over 50 edited books. He has presented at more than 70 international and national conferences related to Materials Science and Engineering. Recognized as one of the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University for 2021- 2022, he received the National Excellence Researcher Award (Engineering and Research Industry) from Thailand's National Research Council in 2021, and has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2025 by Clarivate.