Supreet Saini is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Fellow of DBT/Wellcome Trust (India Alliance) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He studied Chemical Engineering at undergraduate level at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US. His Ph.D. thesis focused on using systems biology approaches to understand Salmonella pathogenesis. His research group works, using experiments with yeast and bacteria and theory, to answer open questions in evolu>tionary biology.