Education
PhD (2011-2015)
Uppsala University, Sweden
Advisor: Prof. Helgi Schioth
Professional Experiences
Assistant Professor at IISER Berhampur (Dec 2020-)
NIH Postdoctoral Felllowship (2017 Jan-Nov2020)
UQ Postdoctoral Fellow (2016 Feb to 2017 Jan)
Honors and Awards
DBT Ramalingaswamy Fellow (2021)
NIH Postdoctoral Felllowship (2017)
UQ Postdoctoral Fellow (2016)
Teaching at IISER BPR
Bio 402: Bioinformatics (Main instructor)
Bio 418: Advanced Evolutionary Biology (Co-instructor)
Bio 101: Introduction to Biological Sciences (Co-instructor)
Dr. Arunkumar Krishnan is a computational biologist broadly working within the theme of comparative and evolutionary genomics. Dr. Krishnan obtained his Ph.D. in evolutionary genomics in September 2015 from Uppsala University, Sweden, under the supervision of Professor Helgi Schiöth. Since completing his Ph.D., he relocated twice to gain research experience from two outstanding evolutionary biology research labs: once from Uppsala to Brisbane to join Dr. Bernard Degnan’s group at the University of Queensland (UQ) and then from Brisbane to NCBI, NIH, US to join Dr. L Aravind’s group after acquiring the prestigious NIH postdoctoral fellowship. Currently, Dr. Krishnan has started his own research group at IISER Berhampur.
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