Suvarn Kulkarni received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from University of Pune in 2001. He pursued Post-Doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Shang-Cheng Hung at Academia Sinica, Taipei, and at University of California Davis  with Prof. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague. He returned to India in late 2008 with a brief stay as faculty at IACS Kolkata before joining the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2009, where currently he is Institute Chair Professor.