Dr. Paramasivan Rajaiah received his M.Sc. in Applied Microbiology from PSG College of Arts and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, and joined the National Institute of Virology, Pune. Later, he earned a Diploma in Medical Virology from the University of Pune, India. He received his PhD from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. He is currently working at the Vector Control Research Centre, Madurai. His main research interests include the genomics of arbovirus and vector mosquitoes.