Dr Ganesh S. Dhole is a Paint Technologist and Ph. D from Chemical Eng. Department of IIT Bombay. Presently, he is holding the post of Scientist-D in Naval Materials Research Laboratory, DRDO, Ambernath. He joined DRDO in the year 2009 and has 13 years of experience in Research and Development of various Marine Protective Coatings. He has published 8 research articles in National as well as International journals. He has 5 patents in his credit and written more than 12 technical reports. He presented 10 technical papers in various National and International conferences