Saikat Dutta received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, in 2010. He then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Davis, USA, till 2014. He is presently appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India. His research interests include organic synthesis, catalysis, and renewable chemistry.