Professor, Christ University, Bengaluru, India

Joseph Varghese Kureethara secured his doctoral degree in Mathematics from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India. He is a postgraduate in both Mathematics and Economics. He has over twenty years of experience in teaching and research and has authored nearly 300 articles, of which 150 are Scopus/WoS-indexed. Kureethara has edited/authored 18 books. His areas of interest are Graph Theory, Number Theory, Fuzzy Optimisation, and Education. His blog has more than 220 thousand pageviews. He has supervised eleven PhDs and 12 MPhils, and is supervising four PhDs.