Dr. Rajendra Kumar Konidena 

RK received his Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Organic Chemistry from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India, in 2012. He then completed his doctoral degree (Ph.D.) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India, in 2017. Following this, he served as a National Research Foundation (NRF) sponsored Postdoctoral Fellow at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, from January 2018 to October 2020. Subsequently, he joined Prof. Xinliang Feng’s group at the Technical University Dresden, Germany, as a Postdoctoral Fellow for a short period of six months. In July 2021, he began his tenure as a Research Professor at Kyung Hee University, Korea, which lasted until March 2022. He then moved to Kyushu University, Japan, where he served as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow until April 2023. Afterward, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, for one year. In May 2024, he joined the Department of Chemistry at IIT Patna as an Assistant Professor.