Vinay obtained his bachelor’s degree in 2019 from Sri Venkateshwar College, Delhi University, and his master’s degree in 2021 from Indian institute of Technology Indore, India. During his master’s thesis, he focused on developing enzyme-based biosensors for pesticide detection. Thereafterhe worked as Junior Research Fellow at IIT Kanpur, India and his research focussed on structural characterization of GPCRs. In September 2023, Vinay joined the IMPRS PhD program and started working in the group of Ivan Dikic as PhD scholar. He is investigating the mechanistic of ER-phagy receptors in ER membrane remodelling.