G. Nageswara Rao is Associate professor of Chemistry and assistant principal, College of Science and Technology, Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam. He obtained postgraduate and doctoral degress in inorganic chemistry from Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam. He studied Bio-inorganic aspects of porphyrin derivatives at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore during 1990-91 as Biotechnology national associate sponsored by DBT, Govt. of India. Dr. Rao was a post-doc at University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa for a year. He completed a DST scheme for young scientists on "Intelligent database for characteristics of metal ions in biota." He is the recipient of merit certificate for paper presentation at Annual Convention of Chemists organized by one of the premier chemical societies in the country. He has 12 years of post-graduate teaching and 15 year of research experience. Dr. Rao is a co-investigator in the major projects sponsored by DOD for predictive modeling using Neural Networks and water quality parameters. Dr. Rao received best researcher award of Andhra University in 2001.