Amit Kumar Mandal

“I was more inclined to be a teacher than a scientist,” says Amit Kumar Mandal of the St. John’s Research Institute in Bangalore, India, “but a fascination with the correlation between molecular structure and function dragged me into research.” His was drawn to mass spectrometry because the kinetics of a chemical reaction can be visualized through it. “When I realized that structural biology can be solved using isotope exchange-based and ion mobility-based mass spectrometry” he says, “my excitement touched the roof.”