Sindhunil Barman Roy is a distinguished professor in Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur, India. He was previously a staff member at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, a Professor at the Homi Bhabha National Institute, and a Raja Ramanna Fellow and Emeritus Professor at the UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, India. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1985, and completed postdoctoral research at Imperial College, London and the University of Florida. He served on the editorial board of the journal 'Superconductor Science and Technology' and is a recipient of the Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award of the Department of Atomic Energy, India.