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.

After seven years of research training in molecular systematics and taxonomy, I am now shifting 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 it progresses across the continuum of differentiation (i.e., 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.