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

Raman spectroscopy Raman spectroscopy () (named after Indian physicist C. V. Raman) is a spectroscopic technique typically used to determine vibrational modes of molecules, although rotational and other low-frequency modes of systems may also be observed. Raman sp ...

of proteins, and

nucleic acid Nucleic acids are biopolymers, macromolecules, essential to all known forms of life. They are composed of nucleotides, which are the monomers made of three components: a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base. The two main cl ...

s. She started her career as associate professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (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. Puranik was a Chevening Rolls-Royce Science and Innovation Leadership Programme (CRISP) scholar at University of Oxford.

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