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Vivek is from Parner-Ahilyanagar in Maharashtra, India. He earned his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Chemistry from New Arts, Commerce, and Science College, Parner (June 2008 – May 2011), followed by a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Organic Chemistry from the Dr. John Barnabas Post Graduate School for Biological Studies, B.P.H.E. Society's Ahmednagar College, affiliated with Pune University (June 2011 – May 2013). Between 2013 and 2015, he worked as a project assistant in Dr. C. V. Ramana’s research group at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune. In 2021, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemical Science from CSIR-NCL under the supervision of Dr. Sukumaran Santhosh Babu. His doctoral research focused on the development of processable two-dimensional (2D) polymers using solvent-free organic liquids. From 2021 to 2023, Vivek pursued postdoctoral research in the Bonifazi group at the University of Vienna, Austria, contributing to the DECOCHROM project and working on boron–nitrogen (BN)-doped materials. In 2024, he joined the Delius group at Ulm University as a postdoctoral researcher, where he is currently involved in the QuE-MRI project.