Prof. VS. Raja is currently Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He has made pioneering contributions to corrosion education, research and mitigating industrial problems. His research interests span structureproperty-corrosion topics mostly focused on localized corrosion, environmentally assisted cracking of light metals, weld related corrosion, development of novel coating and advanced ultrasupercritical steam oxidation. Prof. Raja supervised over 35 doctoral and 123 masters’ students and published over 250 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Lead editor of the book Stress Corrosion Cracking: Theory and Practice and Co-author of the book “Corrosion Failure Analysis: Basics, Case Studies and Solutions”. He is editor of Corrosion Science, and Speciality Chief Editor of Frontiers in Metals and Alloys and served as Editor of Transactions of Indian Institute of Metals. He has been with Corrosion Science, Engineering and Technology and Materials, Werkstoffe Und Korrosion and Corrosion Reviews and Journal of Bio-and Tribo-Corrosion as editorial advisory member. He is recipient of several national and international awards including Mascot National Award of Electrochemical Society of India (2003), Meritorious Contribution Award, NACE International India Section,(2009), VASVIK Award for Industrial Research (2014), Prof. S.P. Shukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay (2016), IRCC Impactful Research Award, IIT Bombay (2016), Technical Achievement Award, NACE International, USA (2018) Prof. H.H. Mathur Award, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2023). Lifetime Achievement by NCCI, CECRI Karaikudi (2024). He was Institute Chair Professor from 2010 until his retirement. He is Fellows of NACE International, USA (2011), Indian Institute of Metals (2014), The Electrochemical Society of India (2017), ASM International (2024) and He is the President, International Corrosion Council (2024-27).