Dr. Suja Sukumaran earned her PhD in Biophysics from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany, as part of the international Max Planck research School. She is the co-inventor of US PATENTS on ‘MspA Nanopores and related methods’ licensed to Illumina Inc. Her experience and expertise is in Molecular Spectroscopy, Visible and fluorescence Imaging, protein and lipid biochemistry. Her current research interests are AI for protein folding , microplastics and recycling.