Dr. Premnath Venugopalan is currently the Head of National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Innovations and Chief Scientist at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune. He is also the Founder Director of Venture Center, Pune. He obtained his B. Tech. degree in Chemistry from IIT Bombay in 1999, Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 1997. He has also been a Chevening Technology Enterprise Scholar with the Centre for Scientific Enterprises, London Business School and Cambridge University, UK during 2004-05.