Palak Sondhi was born and raised in New Delhi, India. She completed her bachelor's in Chemistry from Delhi University in 2014 and continued her studies by completing M. Tech. in advanced methods of chemical analysis from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. She went to Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany as an exchange student. She is currently working as a doctoral student under Professor Keith J. Stine at the University of Missouri, Saint Louis, USA.