Madhu Thomas studied at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India [MSc and PhD in Inorganic chemistry with Professor P. K. Radhakrishnan]. After postdoctoral research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, with Prof. Annie Powell and Prof. Mario Ruben, he moved to University of Guelph, Canada, where he worked with Prof. Kathryn Preuss as a research associate. Currently he is an associate professor in inorganic chemistry at the Addis Ababa Science Technology University, Ethiopia. His research interests concern with the design, synthesis and full characterization of, primarily paramagnetic, poly-metallic complexes of transition metal and lanthanide ions with polydentate Schiff base ligands, as these have interesting magnetic properties