Welcome to Somnath Kashid who joins us as a postdoctoral research fellow on the BBSRC sLoLa Circuits of Life grant. Somnath obtained his PhD from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, under the supervision of Dr Sayan Bagchi where he used ultrafast two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations to study hydrogen bond dynamics. He then conducted postdoctoral research with Prof Arindam Chowdhury at IIT, Bombay using single molecule florescence spectroscopy and FLIM to study Molybdenum disulfide plates.