Mrinalini Puranik is lead scientist at Unilever Limited. Her areas of research include bimolecular spectroscopy,

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of proteins, and

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s. She started her career as associate professor at

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(IISER). In 2015, her article "Solution structures of purine base analogues 9-deazaguanine and 9-deazahypoxanthine" was published by the ''Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics''. Puranik studied for her M.Sc in Physics from

University of Pune Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Pune, is a public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshkhind. The uni ...

. Puranik was a Chevening Rolls-Royce Science and Innovation Leadership Programme (CRISP) scholar at

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