Prof. Govindasamy Mugesh is a Professor in the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from IIT Bombay in 1999.nnWhile completing his Ph.D., Prof. Mugesh worked with IIT Bombay as a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry during 1998-2000. During 2000-2006, Prof. Mugesh joined the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Technical University, Braunschweig in Germany; in 2001, he worked as a Visiting AvH Fellow (with Prof. Helmut Sies) at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Heinrich- Heine University in Germany and as Skaggs Postdoctoral Fellow (with Prof. K. C. Nicolaou) in the Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA. Prof. Mugesh joined IISc Bangalore in 2006 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry.nn