[1][2] He is a former professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai[3] and is known for his studies on mixed metal cluster compounds.
[6] He has also been honoured by the award of an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Keele in the U.K. Pradeep Mathur, born on 17 August 1955 in Teheran to Damyanti and Amrit Dayal.
[7] Mathur chose to move to India and joined Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1984 as a member of the faculty of chemistry where he held several positions before reaching the position of a professor[8] and the head of the National Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Facility.
Mathur's researches were focused on the organometallic chemistry of mixed metal cluster compounds and he has developed synthetic strategies for introducing chalcogen bridges.
[11] He has published his researches by way of chapters contributed to books authored by others[12] and over 180 peer-reviewed articles;[13] ResearchGate and Google Scholar, two online repositories have listed several of them.