Neel was born in Calcutta, India and pursued a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi.. After graduation in 2019 he moved to Oxford to do his Masters in the group of Jonathan Doye where he worked on DNA origami force sensors. He joined the Benesch group and Balliol College in October 2021 to start his DPhil. For his DPhil, he intends to use a range of computational techniques like molecular dynamics and AlphaFold to gain insight into the structure and physical properties of proteins involved in cardiac muscle elasticity and hemolysis. Outside the lab he enjoys photography, cooking and reading