Professional appointments

• Postdoc - Project Manager, Bird theme India - Long Term Ecological Observatories, Nature Conservation Foundation (July 2020 - )
  
• Research Associate, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (2019 - 2020)
  
• PhD Student, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (2014 - 2019)
  

• Project Assistant, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (2013 - 2014)
  

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru (2020)
  
• Master of Science (Biodiversity, conservation and utilization), Abasaheb Garware College, University of Pune (2011 - 2013)
• Bachelor of Science (Microbiology), Abasaheb Garware College, University of Pune, (2008 - 2011)

Teaching experience
Teaching assistant for the following courses:

•  Animal behaviour (EC 301). August - November, 2017. Course Instructors: Prof. Rohini Balakrishnan and Dr. Maria Thaker. Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc.
•  Experiments in ecology. October - November 2017. Course Instructor: Dr. Maria Thaker. Undergraduate program, IISc.
•  Experiments in ecology. October 2019. Course Instructors: Dr. Maria Thaker and Prof. Kartik Shanker. Undergraduate program, IISc.
• Research methods and basic statistics. October 2020 - December 2020. Course instructor: Dr Suhel Quader. MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation program.

Skills
MS office suite: MS excel, Word and Power point
Programming: R, R studio (Quantitative analysis with ecological data, Social Network Analysis)
Visual design: Adobe illustrator, Adobe indesign