Ph. D thesis by Dr. Govind Kumar Sharma has been selected to receive the 2025 Carbon Journal Prize for “an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in carbon materials science and technology'. Govind Kumar Sharma received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) in July 2024, The thesis is titled ‘“Flexible Electrospun Polyacrylonitrile-Based Carbon Nanofiber Composites for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding’ and was supervised by Prof. Nirmala Rachel James, Department of Chemistry, IIST. As part of the prize, he will receive the prize certificate and a grant of $1000 USD to support his attendance at a scientific conference of his choice. In addition, he will be asked to be part of Carbon’s extended Advisory board for three years and be invited to write a review or publish an article in Carbon this year, which they will promote by publishing it Open Access and advertising it on Elsevier media channels. The journal Carbon will also announce and feature this prize on its website. Dr. Sharma is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware, USA.