Sidharam P. Pujari received a B.Sc. in Chemistry at the Shivaji University, India, and an M.Sc. at the University of Pune, India. He worked at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in covalently bound fluorinated monolayers on silicon and oxide surfaces from Wageningen University under the supervision of Prof. Han Zuilhof in 2013. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Han Zuilhof at Wageningen University and Yves Jean Chabal at the University of Texas at Dallas. Presently, he is a research associate at Wageningen University.