Thomas J. Pucadyil

Known for his studies on membrane biochemistry and vesicular transport, Pucadyil is an international research scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a senior fellow of the Wellcome Trust- Department of Biotechnology.

[1][note 1] Thomas J. Pucadyil, born on 20 November 1976,[2] to renowned plasma physicist and Padma Shri recipient, P. I. John of the Pucadyil family,[3] graduated in biochemistry from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad of Gujarat University in 1997 and earned his master's degree from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1999.

[4] Subsequently, he enrolled for doctoral studies at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and served as a National Brain Research Council postdoctoral fellow at CCMB for a year from 2004 to 2005.

[4] Pucadyil's research-focus is in the field of reconstruction biology and he leads a laboratory, Pucadyil Lab,[5] at IISER Pune where he hosts several researchers who are involved in the studies of the rational design principles behind the formation of vesicles inside living cells.

[4] In 2011, he received the associate-ship of the Indian Academy of Sciences,[2] followed by the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance senior fellowship in 2017.