Dr. Baskar Thangaraj obtained his two Masters degrees in Energy Sciences and Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University, and a Master of Philosophy in Energy Studies from the Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University, India. He completed his Doctoral (DSc) degree on bionanocatalysts for biodiesel production at the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He continued his Postdoctoral studies at Jiangsu University, China and King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand. He has published 75 articles and authored in the book Biodiesel from Flowering Plants, Springer Nature.