Dr. Devalina Ray is currently employed as assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP, India. She pursued a B.Sc(H) in chemistry followed by a M.Sc in Organic Chemistry at Kalyani University, WB, India. She received her PhD in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, USA, and the University of Nebraska Medical Centre, USA, followed by Myongji University and Hanyang University, South Korea. Thereafter, she joined the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi as a research associate and young scientist. Her research interests involve synthetic organic chemistry, green chemistry, medicinal and natural product chemistry, and transition-metal-catalyzed C–H activation.