Education
June 2024 – Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Irvine. Thesis Advisor – Dr. Andrej Lupták
May 2019 – BS-MS Dual degree in Chemistry, MS Thesis Advisor – Dr. Vishal Rai
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University (June 2024 – Present)
Title – Biophysical and biochemical analysis of RNA structure
Advisor – Dr. Philip C. Bevilacqua
Graduate Student, UC Irvine (Aug 2022 – June 2024)
Title – Discovery of multi-turnover ribozymes
Advisor – Dr. Andrej Lupták
Graduate Student, UC Irvine (Sept. 2019 – Aug 2022)
Title – Probing RNA transcription with vinyl nucleosides
Advisor – Dr. Robert C. Spitale
M.S. Thesis Research, IISER Bhopal (Jun 2018 – May 2019)
Title – Site-selective modification and immobilization of serine proteases
Advisor – Dr. Vishal Rai
Summer Research Internship, IISER Pune (May – July 2018)
Title – Synthesis and Photophysical evaluation of peptide nucleic acid (PNA)
Advisor – Dr. S.G. Srivatsan
Honors and Achievements
- Riboclub Travel Fellowship (2025)
- Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellow, UCI (Summer 2023)
- Chemistry Block Fellowship, UCI (Fall 2019)
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2019 All India Rank – 326
- Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Fellow, 2014-2019
- Joint Entrance Exam (Advanced) All India Rank – 9846