I obtained a BSc in Agriculture and an MSc in Agricultural Microbiology from India. I completed my PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter, which was fully funded by the government of India. I worked as a Research Fellow for a year at the University of Warwick in the lab of Professor Murray Grant. Then I worked as a Post-doctoral Research fellow at the University of Plymouth in the lab of Associate Prof George Littlejohn. I joined the Marine Biological Association in October 2019 as a Cell and Molecular Research Assistant and Manager of the Mary Parke Bioimaging Centre. I worked with Dr. Glen Wheeler and Dr. Katherine Helliwell to study the physiology of marine phytoplankton and their response to the environment, using advanced imaging techniques to visualize these processes in single cells.  I also worked with Prof Michael Cunliffe to understand the β-glucan-dependent cell wall production process in chytrid fungus through genetic transformation. Currently, I am working as a Postdoctoral researcher with Dr Vengamanaidu Modepalli, addressing the evolutionary history of miRNA biogenesis, which involves analysis of small RNA/microRNA (miRNAs) biology and evolutionary molecular biology. As well as the combination of molecular and bioinformatic techniques to explore the role of miRNAs in sponges and unicellular relatives of animals. I was the winner of the Asian Women of Achievement Science Award 2020.