Krishna Swamy is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Biological & Life Sciences, Ahmedabad University. He is one of the Young Investigators selected to attend YIM 2020 in Mahabalipuram. In this invited article, he writes about his journey from cosmology to experimental biology, and the lessons he learned along the way.

Ranajit Das is an Assistant Professor at Yenepoya University at Mangalore. He is one of the Young Investigators selected to attend YIM2020, and in this invited article, he writes about his experience of pursuing a research career in population genetics, a field of research that defies classification under the traditional subdivisions of biological sciences.