Dr Muralidharan completed his Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology at The University of Queensland in 2013. Subsequently, he undertook postdoctoral tenures at The University of Queensland, McGill University and The University of Sydney. Currently, he is the Group Leader of Neurobiology of Chronic Pain at the Charles Perkins Centre, and his research work focuses on the molecular dissection of the interplay between chronic pain and ageing.