Dileep Mampallil is an Assistant Professor in Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati. He obtained his MSc from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Physics and his PhD from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He worked at the University of Glasgow as part of postdoctoral research. Currently, Dileep is working in an interdisciplinary field involving Physics and Biology. Apart from research, he is also a science communicator. He is the recipient of Joseph Mundassery Foundation prize for young science writer in 2019 for his book Parinamam.