Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai (VNR Pillai) is the Vice-Chancellor of Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai. He has been the Provost of Somaiya Vidyavihar and Somaiya Ayurvihar also, till recently. He has been at the helm of affairs of many higher educational and scientific research establishments for over 50 years as a teacher, researcher, professor, and executive heads of Education, Science and Technology establishments in the country and abroad. An Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Rajasekharan Pillai is one among the top-cited Chemistry researchers in the country. He created an internationally renowned research group in the area of Polymer Science. 67 doctoral and post-doctoral researchers have been trained under his direct supervision in the Universities of Calicut, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, University of Tubingen and the University of Mainz, Germany. He was also a Visiting Research Professor in the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.