Professional appointments

2023 - present                 Assistant Professor, IIT, Indore, India

2021 - 2023           Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Goettingen, Germany  

                               Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael W Sereda

2017 - 2020          Post-doc, University of Lubeck, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Schwaninger

2014 - 2017          Post-doc, Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Heike Heuer

2008 - 2010 Research fellow, National Brain Research Centre, India. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Soumya Iyengar 

Education

2010-2014             Ph.D, Ruhr University, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Irmgard D. Dietzel-Meyer

2006-2008           M.Sc Biomedical Sciences, Madras University (Taramani campus), Tamil Nadu, India

2003-2006           B.Sc Biotechnology, A.V.C College (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Tamil Nadu, India

Fellowships

2023-2025            International Society for Neurochemistry “Return Home Grant”

2023-2026            Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship (DBT), India

2010-2014             International Graduate of Neuroscience, BoNeuro med, Germany

Awards

2021: Synapse 2.0, Best Oral presentation award. Organized by IISER-Tirupathi and IISER- Thiruvananthapuram, India.

2016: Awarded best poster prize during the 9th SFB35 symposium- Transmembrane Transporters in Health and Disease’ Austria.

2014: Awarded research Promotion‘der Wilhelm und Günter Esser Stiftung 2013/14’, Germany

2013: Awarded best poster prize during the 9th Neuro Vision Conference, Germany

2010: BoNeuroMed’s/International Graduate School of Neuroscience scholarship for PhD

2006: Passed National level entrance exam, conducted by Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, India.

2005: Won the best oral presentation award in the National Symposium on Biotechnology and Bioinformatics organized by the Thanthai Hans Rover College, India.