Dr. Sarma completed his B. Sc. and M. Sc. from B. Barroah College and Gauhati University respectively. Then he joined IIT Guwahati for his doctoral research in Chemistry, under the supervision of Prof. Arun Chattopadhyay. After completing his Ph. D. in 2004, he worked as a Alexander-von-Humboldt post-doctoral researcher in the University of Heidelberg, Germany followed by another post-doctoral tenure in the University of Tokyo as a JSPS fellow. He joined as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at IIT Indore in 2009. At present he is an Associate Professor. His area of research is Nanomaterials, Supramolecular hydrogels for applications at the bio-Nano interface, Enzyme-Mimetics, Green Chemistry. He loves reading and travelling.