Brief CV of Professor K. L. Sebastian B.Sc. (Special, Chemistry) from Kerala University (1970), First Rank M.Sc. (Physical Chemistry) from Calicut University (1972), First Rank Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1976) Lecturer and Reader at Calicut Univesity, 1976 to 1984 Professor at Cochin University, 1984 to 1996 Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, September 1996 onwards Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1994) S. S. Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences (1995) Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (2001) Linus Pauling Lecture of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam (1996) Swadeshi Sastra Puraskar (1996) M. N. Saha Memorial Lecture at the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science (2005) Associate Editor of Resonance, published by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, (2005) R. P. Mitra Memorial Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Delhi University (2007) Amrut Modi Chair Professor in Chemical Sciences Division (2008-2011) J. C. Bose Fellow (2008-2013) Member, Editorial Board of Pramana (Journal of Physics), published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore Member, Editorial Board of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, published by American Scientific Publishers