Upayan completed his Ph.D. in the field of molecular virology in 2021 from Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR-NICED), Kolkata, India. His doctoral research work revolved around dissecting host-virus interactions on high throughput platforms to yield targets and pathways which are either beneficial or detrimental to viral propagation and therefore subject to therapeutic interventions. He moved to Frankfurt in 2021 to join the Müller lab for pursuing post-doctoral research in SUMO signaling under various pathological settings.