Professional Experience
Professor: Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (From July 2015)
Visiting Professor (Fulbright Fellowship): Department of Neuroscience, University of Iowa (Sept 2018 - May 2019)
Associate Professor: Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (July 2010 - July 2015)
Assistant Professor: Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (December, 2005 - June 2010)
Research Associate: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (October 2000 - November 2005)
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Centre at Dallas, Texas (January 2000 - September 2000)
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel (1998-1999)
Awards and Recognitions
ICMR International Fellowship 2025
Prof. B.N. Koley Oration Award 2023
P.A. Kurup Endowment Lecture Award 2019
Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Fellowship 2018
INSA International Fellowship 2018
ICMR International Fellowship 2016
DST Travel Grant — International Gap Junction Meeting, USA 2013