Jayakrishnan M. Purushothama received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electronics Science, respectively from the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, and Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India, subsequently in 2012 and 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in RF and Microwave Electronics Engineering from the Université Grenoble Alpes, France, in 2019.

Since February 2021, he joined the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, as a Research Associate with the Microwave and Antenna Engineering Research Group. His research interests include backscatter communication techniques, chipless RFID, CBRAM based solid state RF switches, microwave-based biosensors, implantable antennas, RCS studies, dielectric characterization, and similar.