PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
January 11-2024 onwards: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology (IBED-TCE)
University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands
Advisors: Dr. Carina Hoorn, Dr. Daniel Kissling, Dr. Fabien Condamine & Prof. Alexandre Antonelli
July 2023-August 2023 (One month) : Visiting researcher, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Advisor: Dr. Anahi Espindola
2022 April -2023 November (21 months): JSPS International Research Fellow, Mountain Science Center,
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Advisor: Dr. Yoshiaki Tsuda
2019 September-2021 August (15 months): Bridge Postdoctoral fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). Bangalore, India
Advisors: Dr. R Ganesan and Prof Kamaljith S Bawa
2014 July-2019 October (5 years 3 months): PhD Scholar ATREE/ Manipal University, India (Course work: 2011-2013)
03/2019 (one month): Visiting Scholar, University of Tsukuba, Japan
11/2017 (one month): Visiting Scholar, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2010-2013: Research Associate, ATREE. Bangalore, India
03/2012-08/2012 (six months): Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Biology Concordia University, Canada
Advisor: Dr. Dayanandan Selvadurai
January 11-2024 onwards: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology (IBED-TCE)
University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands
Advisors: Dr. Carina Hoorn, Dr. Daniel Kissling, Dr. Fabien Condamine & Prof. Alexandre Antonelli
July 2023-August 2023 (One month) : Visiting researcher, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Advisor: Dr. Anahi Espindola
2022 April -2023 November (21 months): JSPS International Research Fellow, Mountain Science Center,
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Advisor: Dr. Yoshiaki Tsuda
2019 September-2021 August (15 months): Bridge Postdoctoral fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). Bangalore, India
Advisors: Dr. R Ganesan and Prof Kamaljith S Bawa
2014 July-2019 October (5 years 3 months): PhD Scholar ATREE/ Manipal University, India (Course work: 2011-2013)
03/2019 (one month): Visiting Scholar, University of Tsukuba, Japan
11/2017 (one month): Visiting Scholar, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2010-2013: Research Associate, ATREE. Bangalore, India
03/2012-08/2012 (six months): Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Biology Concordia University, Canada
Advisor: Dr. Dayanandan Selvadurai
EDUCATION
PhD in Conservation and Sustainability Studies 2019
Thesis title: Center of Origin and phylogeny of the genus Piper in India
Manipal University and ATREE, India
Advisor: Dr. G Ravikanth
Senior Fellow, ATREE INDIA
M.Sc Plant Biotechnology 2009
Mahatma Gandhi University
Advisor: Dr. PMA Muneer,
Associate Professor and Senior Scientist
JFK University Medical Center, Edison, NJ
Society Memberships: The American Genetic Association (AGA), International biogeography society (IBS), International association for plant taxonomy (IAPT)
Reviewer: Revista de Biologia Tropical (REV BIOL TROP), Journal of Insect Sciences, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Arid land, PLoS ONE, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Molecular Biology Reports, Botanical Journal of Linnean society, Scientific Reports and Botany
PhD in Conservation and Sustainability Studies 2019
Thesis title: Center of Origin and phylogeny of the genus Piper in India
Manipal University and ATREE, India
Advisor: Dr. G Ravikanth
Senior Fellow, ATREE INDIA
M.Sc Plant Biotechnology 2009
Mahatma Gandhi University
Advisor: Dr. PMA Muneer,
Associate Professor and Senior Scientist
JFK University Medical Center, Edison, NJ
Society Memberships: The American Genetic Association (AGA), International biogeography society (IBS), International association for plant taxonomy (IAPT)
Reviewer: Revista de Biologia Tropical (REV BIOL TROP), Journal of Insect Sciences, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Arid land, PLoS ONE, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Molecular Biology Reports, Botanical Journal of Linnean society, Scientific Reports and Botany
PRIZES AND AWARDS
- Awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call 2022 to work at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands, and do secondments at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew UK and Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, CNRS, France [News!]
- European Commission's Seal of Excellence (SoE) award for the Project proposal HIMALAYA, submitted under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call 2021(Total score 91.40%)
- Scholarship from Smithsonian Institute to attend the workshop “Managing Ecological Data in R: Introduction to Data Science and the Art of Wrangling for Ecologists” (500 USD)
- Awarded the prestigious JSPS-post-doctoral Scholarship to work in the Mountain Science center, University of Tsukuba. Japan on August 2020 (Includes a research grant of 1.2 Million JPY per year)
- Travel grant from ATREE-ATBC to attend the ATBC-Asia Pacific chapter meeting - 2019, Srilanka September 2019 (200 USD)
- The Edda G Sehgal foundation travel grant to attend a course “Using geiger, phytools and other computation tools to study macroevolution on phylogeneis” in Cretè Greece -2019. Hosted by Transmitting Science (1000 USD)
- Visiting student grant from Yamazaki spice promotion foundation to do research at the Mountain Science Center, University of Tsukuba, Nagano Japan 2019 (2500 USD)
- Visiting student grant from the Mountain Science Center, University of Tsukuba, Nagano Japan. 2017 (1500 USD)
- The Edda G. Sehgal Foundation travel grant to attend a course on “Exploratory methods for Population genetics using R” in Barcelona Spain-2015. Hosted by Transmitting Science (1000 USD)
- Scholarship from American society of Naturalists (ASN) in support to attend the Workshop on Molecular Evolution 2014. at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Massachusetts USA (200 USD)
- International Association of Plant Taxonomists (IAPT) research grant to study Phylogeography and Systematics of Piper species in the Western Ghats, India -2014 (1000 USD)
- A travel grant from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Department of Science and technology, Government of India worth to attend the Workshop on Molecular Evolution 2014 at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Massachusetts USA (4400 USD)
- Awarded the prestegious Canada Commonwealth Scholarship to conduct research at Dept of Biology, Concordia University Montreal, Quebec Canada-2012 (10,000 CAD)