Satyajit Mayor is the Ex-Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, India. He is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, an EMBO Fellow, and has received many awards for his work, including the Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship, Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and the JC Bose Fellowship. He was given the Infosys Prize in 2012. He obtained a PhD in Life Sciences from The Rockefeller University and carried out postdoctoral research at Columbia University, New York. His research is aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms of endocytosis in metazoan cells at many scales.
