Dr. Pradnya Deshpande is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Associate Head, F.Y.B.Tech under MIT-WPU with 16 years of teaching and almost 6 years industrial experience at Sudarshan Chemical Industries Pvt. Ltd. She has completed her Ph.D. from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. She has hands on experience of handling FTIR, HPLC, GC–MS. Her area of interest includes Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Natural Product Chemistry. She has contributed 2 book chapters in the book Published by Manipal University. In 2019, she is a recipient of an ideal teacher award by MIT-WPU, Pune.