Biosketch


Education

  • 2009-2013 : PhD (Earth Sciences) St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK

  • 2008-2009 : MPhil Environmental Sciences – Distinction, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

  • 2006-2008 : MSc Environmental Sciences – Distinction, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

  • 2003-2006 : BSc (Hons) Chemistry – Rank 1/40; First class with Honours, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Experience

  • Starting 10/2021 : Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT - Delhi), India

  • 01/2018 - 09/2021 : Research Fellow, Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • 07/2015 - 09/2017 : Marie Curie PRESTIGE Research fellow and LabexMER postdoctoral fellow, Marine Geosciences Research Unit, IFREMER, Brest, France

  • 10/2014 - 06/2015 : Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

  • 10/2013 - 01/2014 : Postdoctoral Research Assistant (part-time) , Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

Awards

  • 2015 : Marie Curie PRESTIGE Incoming Fellowship

  • 2015 : LabexMER International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Sciences

  • 2015 : European Research Council Travel grant XIX INQUA 2015, Nagoya, Japan.

  • 2014 : Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at IIT Kanpur, India

  • 2012 : International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) Travel Award: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

  • 2011 : IAS Travel Award: AGU Chapman Conference on Climates, Past Landscapes, and Civilizations in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

  • 2011 : Graduate Student Award at Congrès des doctorants 2011, IPGP, Paris, France

  • 2010 : St. John’s College Travel and Research grant: EASAA Vienna, Austria

  • 2009 : Gates Cambridge Scholarship (First ever Indian recipient in Earth Sciences) for study towards PhD at University of Cambridge, PhD offer from University of Oxford (Declined)

  • 2009 : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Fellowship for Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting in Chemistry, Germany

  • 2008 : UGC – National Eligibility Test for lecturership in Environmental Sciences

  • 2008 : Junior Research Fellowship - CSIR in Earth, Atmospheric and Ocean and Planetary Sciences (All India Rank 1); interviewed for Shyama Prasad Mukherjee award

  • 2007 : Indian Academy of Sciences - Summer Research Fellowship, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India

  • 2006 : Sh. Gurudas Trikha Memorial Prize for First rank in BSc (hons) Chemistry

  • 2005 : Smt. Krishna Kumari Trikha Award for First rank in BSc (hons) 2nd year

Professional service

  • Referee for journals: Nature Geoscience, Geology, Quaternary Science Reviews, PLOS ONE, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Paleolimnology,
    Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology (Palaeo3), International Journal of Climatology, Environmental Earth Sciences, Journal of Quaternary Sciences, Quaternary Science Reviews

  • Affiliations: American Geophysical Union, International Association of Sedimentologists