Basker Sundararaju received his PhD degree in 2011 from the Université de Rennes1 in France. He then moved to Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim for a two-year post-doctoral work under the guidance of Prof. Alois Fürstner supported by AvH fellowship. Subsequently, he started his independent career as an assistant professor at the department of chemistry, IIT Kanpur in 2013, and raised to the level of associate professor in 2018. His research focuses on developing new catalysts/catalytic methods for functionalization C-H bonds, the hydrogen neutral concept, and waste recycling using 3d metals. He has published 65 papers with the citations over 3700 times and has an H-index of 33. His work has been recognised worldwide and received several awards including the Thieme chemistry journal award, the BRNS young scientist award, the PK Kelkar young faculty award, the Merck Young Scientist award, the CRSI bronze medal. He was invited to join as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He served on the ACS Catalysis early career editorial advisory board (2018-20) and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry (2019-). He has collaborated with various researchers on a national and international level.