Manoj has earned a Masters in Bioinformatics from Bonn University, Germany. He was a part of the research team at Forschungszentrum Jülich and then of the business development team at C-CAMP. He has also been a part of other corporate and startup firms at managerial level. He hopes to use his past experience to help expand IndiaBioscience's outreach activities and create educator-related resources. His interests are photography, traveling and designing.