Dr. S. Athavan Alias Anand is a Senior Researcher at Prayoga, specializing in synthetic organic chemistry and chemistry education research. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu and has postdoctoral research experience from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His doctoral research focused on designing and synthesizing potent drug candidates for anticancer and antituberculosis applications, where he was involved in the multistep heterocyclic synthesis of active drug-like scaffolds and the evaluation of their in silico and in vitro biological properties. During his postdoctoral work, Dr. Anand concentrated on designing and synthesizing oligosaccharides of arabinan and arabinomannan glycolipids, further contributing to the field of medicinal chemistry and drug development.