Dr. Sankarasekaran Shanmugaraju received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. In 2014, he moved to Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, as an Irish Research Council (IRC) postdoctoral fellow. In October 2018, he joined the Department of Chemistry as an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad. Since June 2023, he has been an associate professor in the same institution. His group's current research activities encompass the design and self-assembly formation of novel structures, functional materials, and porous polymers for their applications in emerging sustainable technologies.