She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
[2] Mukundan received her Bachelor's of Science Degree in Microbiology from the University of Delhi in 1995.
[3] In 1997, she earned in Master's Degree in Microbiology from Barkatullah University and then went on to complete her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
[3] From 2006, she worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[3] Her work focuses on developing tools for detecting infectious diseases.