Thank you for visiting my site! I am an evolutionary biologist by training who enjoys working on exciting questions, and learning about new tools and technologies while doing so. After completing my undergraduate studies at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune in India, I joined Prof. Marko Mutanen's research group at University of Oulu for 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.

My broader research interests include speciation genomics, adaptation, and molecular evolution. I am specifically interested in understanding molecular evolutionary processes that drive divergence in closely related speciating taxa and how it progresses across the continuum of differentiation (i.e., speciation continuum). I am soon starting as a postdoc at the Georgia Institute of Technology where I will be working on addressing the later part in more detail by studying taxa at different stages of speciation continuum. 

In my free time, I like to read novels, practice chess, try my hands at different forms of art and craft, and seize every opportunity to travel and hike.