Maravanji S. Balakrishna has been teaching inorganic chemistry since 1996 and currently is Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has published more than 170 papers in international journals on phosphorus-based ligands and their metal complexes and various applications. His research interests include main group chemistry, coordination and organometallic chemistry of mono-, bis-, tris- and polyphosphines, and functionalized phosphines, homogeneous catalysis, and anticancer studies.