Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1979. After spending a year at the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a UNESCO Fellow, he moved to Rutgers University, NJ, USA. At Rutgers, he was first a postdoc and then became Assistant Professor (non-tenure track). In 1985, he moved to University of California, Davis where he worked as a  Senior Research Associate before joining IITK in December, 1987. He became a full professor in 1995.  His area of research is Supramolecular Chemistry.