Yamuna Krishnan

Education

She secured Mississippi in chemical sciences in 1997 and Doctor of Philosophy in organic chemistry in 2002 both from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Career

She was earlier Reader in National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India. She earned her Bachelor"s in Chemistry from Women"s Christian College, Chennai in 1994. Her current research interests are in the areas related to structure and dynamics of nucleic acids, nucleic acid nanotechnology, cellular and subcellular technologies. of India, in 2006.

Doctor of Philosophy (Organic Chemistry):January 2002, Department of Organic Chemistry,Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore, India.

Master of Surgery (Chemical Sciences):September 1997, Chemical Sciences Division, Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore, India, Bachelor of Science (Chemistry):June 1994, Women's Christian College, University of Madras.

Her professional experience began as a graduate student at the department of chemistry at Indian Institute of Science from 1997 to 2001. She worked as a post doctoral research fellow and an 1851 Research Fellow from 2001 to 2004 at department of Chemistry at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She was a Fellow "East" at National Centre for Biological Sciences from 2005-2009, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India and then tenured Reader "F" from 2009-2013 at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.

In 2013 she was worked as an Associate Professor "G" National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India and moved in August 2014 as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.

Achievements

• She is the youngest woman recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, which she won in the year 2013 in chemical science category. She was a recipient of the Wellcome Trust -Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Alliance Senior Research Fellowship in 2010, the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Medal in 2007 and of Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award from the Department of Biotechnology, Government