Dr. Amutha Boominathan is the Group Lead for the MitoSENS program at SENS Research Foundation. She joined SRF in 2013 as a Senior Research Scientist and became the Group Lead for the program in 2016. She completed her graduate studies at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India and was awarded a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. Subsequently, through an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship, she obtained further training at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University where she studied mitochondrial biogenesis with a focus on protein import, Fe–S biosynthesis, and fusion and fission mechanisms in the organelle. She has over 20 years of experience in mitochondria biology.