Graduate: electronics & communications engineering, India. Worked/studied in Sweden & Germany on space science & radio astronomy for my MS. PhD Astrophysics: The Netherlands, specializing in semi-analytics of the early Universe. Short postdocs at U of Tokyo and the Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics. Shifted gears to the Social Brain Lab at the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience working on applications of information theory/signal processing to model the primate brain.