Subhas Kundu received his under graduate degree (B.Sc Hons.) in Agricultural Sciences from Visva Bharati University, Santineketan, India, Master degree (M. Sc.) in Genetics and Plant Breeding and PhD in genetics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.  Kundu received his post-doctoral training at Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow; Department of Biology, York University, Canada; Medical University, Lubeck, Germany; Department of Biology & Biochemistry, Brunel University, UK. He was the Founder Head and Full Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT), India and a Distinguished Invited Professor at Dankook University, Korea. In his early teaching career, he was An Assistant to a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Life Sciences at Manipur University, Imphal. He taught genetics, cell and molecular biology, and recombinant DNA technology to undergraduates, post-graduates and pre-doctoral students. Kundu joined  as European Research Area Chair at 3Bs Research Group, University of Minho in September 01, 2016 and  later as Research Coordinator since November 02, 2020.