Kartik Chandra Mondal received his Ph. D in 2011 from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) under the supervision of Professor Annie K. Powell. He worked on mixed 3d – 4f ion based single molecule magnets. After a short stay as a postdoctoral researcher in the same group he moved to University of Göttingen. He has been appointed as an assistant professor at Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras. Dr. Mondal has coauthored more than 70 peer – reviewed publications in leading scientific journals. Since then he has been working in the research areas given below.