Sreya Sreekumar graduated from Mahatma Gandhi University with a BSc degree in Physics in 2021 and continued in the field of Material Science as a Research Assistant under Dr I John Berlin at Mahatma Gandhi University for 2 years. She worked on the project for Synthesis and Characterization of nano materials by sol-gel method for spintronic applications and analyzed the properties of materials using different spectroscopy methods. She is currently working with Professor Cuniberti’s team on smart olfaction and e-nose sensing using Mxenes.