Dr Suryodaya Sharma has a PhD from the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the University Grants Commission (UGC-SRF). Earlier, he attended Keele University, UK as a Visiting Fellow supported by the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI). He has received his education from the University of Delhi and Banaras Hindu University.

His primary area of interest is the intersection of prejudice, legitimation and oppression, specifically how social inequalities may be naturalised and reproduced in modern and democratic societies. His doctoral project examined the psychological underpinnings of persistence of caste in Indian society in a mixed-method enquiry. He is also involved in many projects with foci ranging from hate speech through memes, identity entrepreneurship by majoritarian leadership and humiliation in Hindu-Muslim relations in Indian society. He seeks to answer complicated questions of social inequalities by exploring the interrelationships between psychological processes and socio-political contexts.