Dr. Behera earned his M.Sc degree (2010) in Chemistry from Utkal University, Odisha, India and Ph.D. degree in 2016, from department of chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, Assam, India. After completion of Ph.D, he worked  as a D.S Kothari postdoctoral researcher at department of inorganic and physical chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, India (Jan’2017- Sept 2018), as a  postdoctoral researcher at Madrid Institute for Advance studies, IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, Spain ( Dec’2018- Sept’2020) and as a senior project associate at materials chemistry department, CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar, India (Nov’2020-August’2022). Currently, Dr. Behera is an MSCA postdoc fellow at the Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials with Prof. Rubén D. Costa.  His primary research includes design and development of luminescent small organic molecules for optoelectronic and biological applications, investigating excited state dynamics through photophysical and optical spectroscopic studies and TDDFT calculations. He has published his research work in 24 peer-reviewed international journals and 394 citations (as of August’2022).