Nitin T. Patil was born in 1975 at Jalgaon (Maharashtra), India. He completed his doctoral studies from the University of Pune (now Savitribai Phule Pune University) in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Dilip D. Dhavale. Subsequently, he joined Prof. Christoph Schneider's group as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Gӧttingen, Germany. In November 2002, he moved to Tohoku University, Japan, as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow to work with Prof. Yoshinori Yamamoto, where later on, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor. In June 2006, he joined Prof. K. C. Nicolaou's laboratory at ICES, Singapore, and later at The Scripps Research Institute, USA. He began his independent career in September 2008 at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad and subsequently moved to CSIR-NCL, Pune, in August 2013. In July 2017, he joined IISER Bhopal as an Associate Professor and he attained the rank of Professor in October 2023.
