Dr. Balamurugan is an active Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India, in 2002. Later he moved to Japan in October 2002 to pursue his post doctoral research work as a Monbusho Special Researcher at the University of Kyoto. There he worked one and a half years. After this Special Researcher Fellowship he was awarded as an NIMS post doctoral research fellow by NIMS autonomous research institute, Tsukuba, JAPAN where he spent three and a half years. After gaining NIMS experience he was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Research Fellowship by AvH Foundation, GERMANY. He carried out his AvH research work at the University of Munster (2008-2010) with the co-operation of Prof. Rainer Pottgen. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nanotechnology, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher education (NICHE), Tamilnadu/India. Based on his achievements and his eminent contributions in the field of Chemistry and Physics of Materials, he has been elected and serving as an editorial board member in: (i) The Open Superconductors Journal, (ii) Journal of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and (iii) Journal of Physics & Astronomy. Besides these he has also acted as a referee/reviewer in various Journals and reviewed several research articles. So far he has published about 60 authored and co-authored research articles in various reputed international Journals. His research interests are mainly focused on Chemistry and Physics of Materials which include: Synthetic methodology and characterization of nanomaterials/nanocrystals, Synthesis and characterization of functional inorganic materials, Structure-Physical property correlations, High-Pressure Materials Chemistry, Crystal growth of functional oxide materials using various flux reagents, Magnetic materials, and Exploration of Magnetic and Catalytic properties of functional materials.