Sudha Rajamani obtained her PhD (Biochemistry) in 2002 from the National Institute of Immunology at New Delhi. Subsequently, she joined the Fink lab at University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC), USA, for a postgraduate research stint in the area of Parkinson's Disease. A change in her career trajectory led her to her current field of research in Astrobiology. She initiated her work in this area with a postdoctoral position at the Deamer lab in UCSC and completed with a postdoctoral position at the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University, prior to joining IISER Pune in 2012.




