Further studies were in the US, where he passed MS in 1962 followed by doctoral degree (PhD) in 1964 from the University of California, Berkeley.
[7] After migrating to the US, he joined the faculty of University of California, Berkeley as a research cum teaching assistant in 1961, a job which lasted till 1964, when he moved to Illinois to work for the International Minerals and Chemicals Corporation, Libertyville, as a research engineer.
[6][8] Somasundaran has published several publications,[5][9][10][11] reportedly fifteen books, over 700 scientific articles and holds many patents.
[12] Somasundaran is the honorary editor-in-chief of Colloids and Surfaces,[13] an international scientific journal published by Elsevier.
[4] Somasundaran is a member of the National engineering academies of India, China and Russia and has held the positions of the Honorary Professor of Central University of Technology, China and the Honorary Research Advisor of Beijing Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Beijing.