Editor Name: Manoj Khandelwal

Designation: Program Coordinator of Mining Engineering

University: Federation University Australia

Country: Australia

Biography: Dr. Manoj Khandelwal is the Program Coordinator of mining engineering at Federation University and is an Australian Endeavour Fellow. Dr Khandelwal has completed his bachelor's degree in mining engineering from Maharana Pratap Univversity of Agriculture & Technology, India, masters in rock mechanics from Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi and PhD in rock engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Before joining Federation University Australia, Dr Khandelwal worked as an Assistant Professor of mining engineering at Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology. Dr Khandelwal was also a postdoctoral researcher at Monash University. Dr Khandelwal has more than fifteen years of research and academic teaching experience in Australia and India. Dr Khandelwal has been recognized as a leading expert in ‘Mining Geomechanics’ and ‘Rock Blasting’. So far, Dr Khandelwal has published more than 140 research papers in different reputed journals and conference proceedings. His total citations are more than 4000 and his current h index is 36. He is also the author of a technical book. He has successfully completed several research and consultancy research projects in his area of interest. He has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, in which some of them are the Young Scientist Award at the hands of the President of India during the 93rd Indian Science Congress, Young Engineers Award by Institution of Engineers’ India, Young Mining Engineer of the Year and SRG Information Technology award from Mining Engineers’ Association of India, Endeavour Research and Executive Fellowship from Govt of Australia, etc. Dr Khandelwal is a member of the editorial board of several international journals published from various continents and a reviewer of more than 100 international journals.