Ramkrishna Mandal is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Chemistry, University of Otago. He is pursuing his doctoral research under the supervision of A/Prof Nigel Lucas. Ramkrishna obtained his MS in medicinal chemistry from NIPER-Kolkata, India. After that, he worked as a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. Ramkrishna’s PhD research primarily encompasses the synthesis of nanoscopic covalent cage architectures from chiral precursors.