Thank you for visiting my site! I am an evolutionary biologist fascinated by the diversity of life and the processes that shape and maintain it. I love tackling exciting research questions and exploring new tools and technologies that help answer them. 

I completed my undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune in India, after which I joined Prof. Marko Mutanen's research group at University of Oulu to pursue my PhD. My doctoral research focused on resolving taxonomic challenges in different groups of butterflies and moths and using genomic approaches to investigate species boundaries and relationships among closely related species and populations with parapatric and allopatric distributions.

After seven years of research training in molecular systematics and taxonomy, I am now expanding my focus to broader questions in evolutionary genomics, including speciation, adaptation, and molecular evolution. I am specifically interested in understanding molecular evolutionary processes that drive divergence in closely related speciating taxa and how reproductive isolation develops across the continuum of differentiation (i.e., speciation continuum). 

outside of research, I enjoy reading novels, practicing chess, trying my hands at different forms of art and craft, and seizing every opportunity to travel and hike.