Subba Rao Cheekatla was born in Bobbillanka village (East Godavari district), Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his master's degree in organic chemistry from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, and completed his PhD degree (2019) in synthetic organic chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Sambasivarao Kotha, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. His PhD work mainly focused on the synthesis and application of carbocyclic cage molecules. Later, he worked as a research associate with Prof. Mintu Porel at IIT Palakkad, Kerala, India. Presently, he is working as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Jun-Seok-Lee is at Korea University, South Korea. His research interests include the development of novel strategies to obtain biologically interesting, diverse heterocycles, the synthesis of cage hydrocarbons and aryl/heteroaryl fused macrocycles, Triquinanes, and the design of fluorescent probes for biological application and chemical proteomics.