Raju Jannapu Reddy obtained his PhD from the School of Chemistry at the University of Hyderabad, India, in 2008, under the supervision of Prof. D. Basavaiah. After completing his doctoral studies, he carried out postdoctoral research at National Taiwan Normal University from Aug 2008 to Oct 2010. Following that, he was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan, from Nov 2010 to Nov 2012. From Jan 2013 to Jan 2015, he held the position of Marie Curie Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, UK. Since Jan 2015, he has been serving as a UGC Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Additionally, he worked briefly as an R&D Chemist at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Pvt. Limited in Hyderabad from Aug 2001 to Jul 2002.

Dr. Reddy has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for FIVE major research grants sponsored by various funding agencies, including the UGC-BSR Startup Grant (₹6 lakhs), SERB Early Career Research Award (₹33 lakhs), CSIR-EMR-II (₹29 lakhs), SERB Core Research Grant (₹37 lakhs), and DST-WOSA (₹24 lakhs; mentor), with total funding exceeding ₹130 lakhs. Recently, he secured two additional research grants under the ANRF-PAIR and ARG schemes, together worth approximately ₹1.5 crore.​