From 2008 to 2014, Daniel Karthik obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Industrial Textile Engineering, Polymer Science, Composite structures, Medical Textiles, and coating and lamination technologies. The primary objective of his master’s thesis was to investigate and advance the field of wound dressings by integrating the physical characteristics of Nonwoven substrates with the impacts of coatings based on antibiotics and hydrocolloids.

In 2024, he obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. His thesis mainly investigated novel, single-stage methods for obtaining Carbon-based functional structures from optimized Pyrolysis and Carbonization processes of long-chain aromatic polyamides. The thesis further demonstrated the analysis and identification of pyrolysis volatiles using an unconventional measurement technique (UV-spectroscopy) coupled with a spectral matrix decomposition-based algorithm for separating mixture spectra and acquiring information on the progressive changes in concentrations of decomposition products and their volatility differences. In addition, he conducted research on the detailed analysis of Ohmic Heating (joule heating) and Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding measurements on carbon-based conductive surfaces.

Upon joining the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at TU Dresden in August 2024, he has since directed his efforts toward the advancement and fabrication of biosensor platforms based on carbon nanotubes and field-effect transistors (CNTs-FETs). These platforms are designed to continuously monitor real-time processes and interactions. He is currently a member of the WEREPRO initiative.