Prathap currently works on the synthesis of long fatty acids (mycolic acid-a natural product isolated from Mycobacterium tuberculosis). He completed his PhD at CSMCRI, India in 2012 with late Prof. R. I. Kureshy on the synthesis of pharmaceutically active chiral β-amino alcohols (Asymmetric catalysis).  After this, he worked as a Lady Davis and PBC postdoctoral fellow at the TECHNION- Israel Institute of technology, Israel in 2012-2015 with Prof. Galiya Mayyan, developing the novel peptidomimetic material (Biomimetic chemistry). He then moved to the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden as a Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral fellow (2016-2018) to develop the Nano cellulose based (Nano- chemistry) catalytic system in water with Prof. Peter Diner. Later, he moved to Wageningen university (NL) as a research fellow with Prof. Joris Sperkel and Prof. Bauke Albeda, developing a new mechanoresponsive soft polymer (Mechano chemistry),before joining the Minnaard Lab in 2021.