Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh received the B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission College, Kolkata, India, in 1988, the M.Sc. degree in biochemistry from the University College of Science, Kolkata, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in molecular biology from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, in 1998. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, and with the Center for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India.