Senior Research Scientist (tenured)
Biometals Lab & Advanced Protein Crystallography Research Group
RIKEN SPring-8 Center
1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 697-5148, JAPAN
October 2008 to till date

Research Scientist (Special Fixed Term Contract)
Biometals Lab & Advanced Protein Crystallography Research Group
RIKEN SPring-8 Center
1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 697-5148, JAPAN
April 2005 to September 2008

AIST Fellow
Membrane laboratory, Functional Nucleic Acids Group
AIST, Tsukuba, Japan.
April 2004 to March 2005

Post-doctoral Fellow
Dept. of Biotechnology
NIAR, Tsukuba,
Japan.
May 2002 to March 2003

Science and Technology Agency  (STA) Fellow
Laboratory of Molecular genetics
NIBH, AIST, Tsukuba,
Japan
May 2000 to April 2002

AIST and NIAR Fellow
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics,
NIBH, AIST, Tsukuba,
 & Dept. of Biotechnology
NIAR, Tsukuba,
Japan
May 1999 to  April 2000

Ph.D
Department of Crystallography and Biophysics
University of Madras
India
June 1995- April 1999

M.Phil
Department of Physics,
Bharathidasan University
Trichy, India
1992-1993

M.Sc
Bharathidasan University
Trichy, India
1990-1992