Masilamani Jeganmohan was born in Vazhapattampalayam, Tamilnadu, India in 1978. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s college (Cuddalore), the University of Madras in 1998, and his master’s degree from the University of Madras in 2001. He earned his Ph.D. from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, under Prof. Chien-Hong Cheng in 2005 and pursued postdoctoral work in the same laboratory (Aug 2005-July 2009). Then he joined as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in Prof. Paul Knochel’s group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany (Sep 2009-Oct 2010). In November 2010, he joined as an Assistant professor in IISER Pune. He has promoted to Associate professor in April-2016 at IISER Pune. In October-2016, he has shifted from IISER Pune to IIT Madras as an Associate professor.  In July 2021, he was promoted to Professor. At present, he is working as a professor at IIT Madras.