Dr T. G. Ajithkumar Ajithkumar did his undergraduate and post-graduate studies in Physics at Maharajas College, Eranakulam which is affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. He then pursued his Ph.D in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. After being a post-doctoral researcher at Radbound University Nijmegen in the Netherlands for two and half years, he joined as a scientist at the Central NMR Facility, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune in August 2004. His current research interest is in developing new solid-state NMR methods and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy for the study of materials.