Shreyas Bhat is a research associate at the Department of Physics at the Université de Montréal, Canada. He received his B.Tech/M.Tech (Integrated) from the School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Padmashree Dr DY Patil University, India and earned his PhD in pharmacology from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He also served as a Junior Research Fellow (2009–2012) and a Senior Research Fellow (2012–2014) at the Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer, India. His current work focuses on elucidating structure–function relationships of ion channels and neurotransmitter transporters in the central nervous system.