Tapan K. Nayak received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, in 1990. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, and a Guest Scientist at CERN, Geneva, Germany, and GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. He has been a Scientist with the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India, and a Professor of the Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India, a deemed university. He is currently a Scientific Associate with CERN, where he holds the position of Deputy Spokesperson of the ALICE collaboration with the CERN Large Hadron Collider.