Basker Sundararaju obtained his doctoral degree in 2011 from universite de Rennes1, France. He then moved to Muelheim to carry out his post-doctor research (2011-13) under the supervision of Prof. Alois Fuerstner at the Max-Planck Institute of Coal Research, Germany, supported by AvH fellowship.  During his PhD and post-doctoral research, he primarily focusses on developing new catalytic methods using Noble metals such [Ru], [Pd] and [Ir].  In 2013, he began his independent career as an assistant professor at the department of chemistry, IIT Kanpur, subsequently raised to associate professor in 2018 and professor in 2022.  He was part of early career editorial advisory board of ACS Catalysis (2018-20) and currently serve as an associate editor of journal heterocyclic chemistry (2019-). He has published 48 papers in his independent career (overall 66 papers) cited well over 3954 with a H-index of 34. He has collaborated with several researchers at the national and international collaboration.