Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy joined the faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, after getting his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India), working in the Central Leather Research Institute (Chennai, India) and JEOL Ltd (Tokyo, Japan), and completing postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His current research focuses on the structural biophysics of amyloid proteins and membrane proteins and on the development and applications of solid-state NMR spectroscopy.