Ajay Mathuru currently serves as the Head of Studies, of Life Sciences at Yale-NUS College and is an Associate Professor (Neuroscience) at the National University of Singapore. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Science (Genetics, Microbiology, and Chemistry) from Osmania University in 1996. He was awarded the University Gold Medal and a Master’s degree in Life Sciences (Plant Sciences) at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, in 1998.

He spent a summer studying olfactory conditioning and odour-evoked behaviors in the late Professor Obaid Siddiqi’s laboratory at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India which culminated in a lifelong interest in neuroscience. For his Ph.D. work he studied biophysical and biochemical coupling at the hippocampal synapses with Upi Bhalla at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.

Prior to starting his group in 2015 at Yale-NUS College, he was an Early Career Research Awardee at IMCB, A*STAR, and worked with Suresh Jesuthasan at Temasek Lifesciences Labs, and Duke-NUS/A*STAR before that.

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