Balamurugan earned his Ph.D. in Nanochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science. He then went on to carry out his postdoctoral research at Institut Europeen de Chimie et Biologie, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France aimed at constructing supramolecular chiral nanostructured materials for efficient selection, separation, and recognition of chiral molecules accompanied by their detailed chiroptical investigation by CD and CPL spectroscopic techniques.