Professor Shridhar R. Gadre received his Ph. D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Kanpur in 1978. After his postdoctoral research with Professor Robert G. Parr and Robert L. Matcha, he joined University of Pune as a lecturer and was promoted to Professorship in 1988. He has authored over 200 publications mostly in high-impact journals, guided 18 Ph.D. students and completed over 10 research projects sponsored by government agencies and industries. Professor Gadre is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and a recipient of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award (1993) in Chemical Sciences. After superannuting from Pune university, he joined Department of Chemistry IIT, Kanpur in 2010.