Bhaskar Mondal obtained his Masters in physical chemistry from the University of Calcutta and his Ph.D. in computational chemistry from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. After completion of his postdoctoral works at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow he moved to Germany to work at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. Before joining IIT Mandi, he was a senior postdoctoral researcher at the RWTH Aachen, Germany.