Dr. Ganta Ravi Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Dept of Chemistry, GSS, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM) in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He specializes in organic chemistry, particularly in the synthesis of bioactive heterocyclic compounds and heterogeneous catalysis. Dr. Ganta has a Ph.D. from Andhra University and has been a recipient of the CSIR-JRF NET award by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India.