Dr. Komala Pandurangan completed her M.Sc and M.Phil at MGAC, University of Madras, Chennai, India. She worked as a Research Assistant at the Department of Organic chemistry and Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India from 2001-2006. She completed her PhD degree (Chemistry) in 2011 at University College Dublin, Ireland. She pursued her postdoctoral research in Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore, India) and Dublin City University (Ireland). She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at REVA University, Bangalore, India.