Nanopesticides and Their Impact on Human Health

Malhari Chandraharsh Nagtilak

Malhari Chandraharsh Nagtilak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at LET’s DBNP Arts, SSGG Commerce & SSAM Science College, Lonavala, India. He holds an M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry and has qualified UGC-NET (L.S., 61st Rank) and UGC-NET JRF (107th Rank). He completed his Ph.D. under Savitribai Phule Pune University, focusing on spectroscopic and molecular docking studies of pesticide–protein interactions, contributing to the fields of chemical toxicology and biophysical chemistry.

With more than 14 years of teaching experience, complemented by industrial research experience at Advinus Therapeutics, Pune. He has completed a university-funded research project on Cu-doped ZnO-catalyzed synthesis and has published numerous research articles in Scopus-indexed Elsevier and Taylor and Francis internationally recognized journals. He has presented his research at numerous national and international conferences and has been nominated for recognition, including the InSc Young Achiever Awards 2022 and the CSRFSFRC Fellowship (USA). He was also granted a patent in 2025 for an invention entitled “Chemical Waste Disposal Machine with Multi-Stage Filtration.”

Dr. Nagtilak currently serves as an editor of two international academic books and has contributed chapters to several books published by well-known and recognized academic publishers. One of his authored books has also been used as a reference book at the university/state level, reflecting the academic relevance of his scholarly contributions. Dr. Nagtilak has served as an editor for multiple international peer-reviewed journals and as a reviewer for several Scopus-indexed journals across various chemistry disciplines. He is actively involved in curriculum development under the SPPU National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 framework and contributes to various academic committees, faculty development programmes, research training initiatives, and scholarly activities. His research interests encompass drug discovery, spectroscopy, computational chemistry, pesticide–protein interactions, nanomaterials, and sustainable catalytic methodologies.

Vijay Singh Parihar

Vijay Singh Parihar is an Adjunct Professor (Docent) of Biomaterials at Tampere University, Finland, and a biomaterial chemist with expertise in chemical biology, catalysis, biomaterial functionalization, and docking studies. He received his Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of Pune, India, in 2016 and subsequently worked as an exchange Ph.D. student at Uppsala University and Stockholm University, Sweden. He has held research positions as a Research Associate at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, and as a National Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Indore.

Since joining Tampere University in 2017 as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, he has contributed to research in synthetic organic chemistry, nanomedicine, tissue engineering, polymers, biomaterials, biomimetics, functional materials, 3D bioprinting, drug delivery, composites, nanomaterials, flexible electronics, optoelectronics, and catalytic coupling and photochemical reactions. His current research focuses particularly on the development of bioinks for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

He has authored and co-authored 38 international research publications and has received several prestigious fellowships and awards, including the PoDoCo Finland Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020), D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the University Grants Commission, India (2020), President Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Tampere University of Technology Foundation (

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