Jatin received his B.Sc.(Hons) in Biochemistry (First Class) from University of Delhi, India during which he was also a summer research fellow in the Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India.

Thereafter, Jatin was in Germany for over 10 years where he did his M.Sc. in Neuroscience (University of Göttingen / International Max Planck Research School), PhD specializing in optogenetics and nematode C. elegans behaviour (University of Frankfurt), followed by a post-doc in Zebrafish stress neurobiology (MPI Heidelberg / University of Mainz).

Jatin has been in Cork, Ireland since January 2020, first as an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland post-doctoral fellow at APC Microbiome Ireland, then as a lecturer (specific-purpose fixed-term, from August 2022 till January 2024) at the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, UCC, followed by Lectureship in Translational Pharmaceutical Sciences at the School of Pharmacy and iEd Hub (till September 2024), here at UCC.

Since October 2024, Jatin holds a permanent lectureship in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UCC. He is also a group leader at APC Microbiome Ireland and co-chairs UCC Race Equality Network. He serves as a director in the board of the ALBA Network and as the Science Communication Coordinator of the EU COST Action Affect-Evo.

Jatin sits on the editorial boards of the journals - Gut Microbes Reports, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology and Journal of Experimental Pharmacology.

Neuroscience, Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Stress and Social Neurobiology and Behaviour, Optogenetics, Neurodevelopment, Model organisms - Zebrafish and C. elegans, Hypothalamus, Exposome-Genetics-Microbiome Interactions.

Since joining UCC as a Lecturer, Lecturer above the bar & now in my substantive role, I have taught and examined in UG and PG modules across 7 programmes (MPharm/BPharm, MSc Pharmaceutical Technology & Quality Systems MSCPTQ, MSc Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences Operations & Management MSCIPS, BSc Sciences, BSc Med Health Sci., MRes Industrial Pharmaceutics).

I have supervised 8 master’s theses from MSCIPS, graduated a visiting research master’s student (EPFL Lausanne) and I currently supervise 2 PhD students, 1 MRes student and 1 postdoctoral researcher.

Modules coordinated: PT2448 PT6401 PT3001 PT4024

Modules taught: PT1445 PT2448 FM2003/PT2201 PF2011 GN2001 PT3001 PF3009 PF3012 PT4005 PF4014 PT4024 PF4016 MH4010 AN4014 AN4011 APC Summer Student Postgraduate Teaching PF6037 PF6040 PT6401 PF6036-MSc theses PF6421-MPharm theses