Rajgopal Srinivasan is a Chief Scientist at TCS Research and Innovation, and heads the Life Sciences Research Area. A graduate in Chemistry from The Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Srinivasan holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA. Following postdoctoral stints at Eli Lilly and Co at Indianapolis, Washington University at St. Louis, and Johns Hopkins Medical School, he worked as a research professor at the Johns Hopkins University in the department of Biophysics. He joined TCS in 2003 as part of its Corporate R&D Center in Hyderabad, India.