John Thomas did his master’s thesis on "Novel nanotechnology enabled drug delivery for the treatment of Gliobalstoma multiforme" in the lab of Prof. Manzoor Koyakutty at the Amrita Centre for Nano Sciences in Kochi, India. He completed his PhD on "The effects of partial spinal cord injuries on the functional connectivity and plasticity of the primate brain" in the lab of Neeraj Jain at the National Brain Research Centre in Manesar, India. He now joins the Perception and Plasticity Junior Research Group as a postdoc where he will investigate the Neural mechanisms for perceptual learning with variability.