Kiran Kumar Reddygunta is a PhD student working under supervision of Dr Aruna Ivaturi leading the Smart Materials Research and Device Technology (SMaRDT) group, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He received his M.Tech degree in Nanoelectronics and Photonics from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, Telangana, India in 2018. His research interests are mainly on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage applications like batteries and supercapacitors. His present research which is co-funded by Scottish Funding Council (SFC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is focused on biomass for high power density electrochemical energy storage.