Nikhil R. Jana is a Professor at the School of Materials Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. He received his undergraduate degree (1987) from Midnapore College and Masters (1989) and PhD degree (1994) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Carolina-USA (1999−2001) and University of Arkansas-USA (2003) and Scientist at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology-Singapore (2004-2008). His research group designs colloidal nanobioconjugate for controlling cellular processes, develops nanoprobes/nanodrugs for sub-cellular targeting/imaging and investigates colloidal nanodrugs for therapeutic applications. His group has published 220 peer-reviewed research articles in internationally recognized journals, which have about 30,000 citations. He has been serving as an Associate Editor of ACS Applied Nano Materials since 2019.