Gaurav completed his Honours degree at Victoria University followed by three years of research assistant work in two different labs in Monash University. He has been working as a sessional teaching staff, teaching and demonstrating practicals to 2nd and 3rd year Bachelor of Pharmacy students for the last 5 and a half years at Monash University. After mastering several molecular biology and biochemistry techniques, he then decided to do his PhD under Prof. Colin Pouton in a fascinating gene delivery project. Apart from his passion for science, he is a deeply spiritual person who likes to read about spirituality and self-consciousness.