I completed my bachelors from University of Calcutta and masters from Maulana Azad College, under University of Calcutta, both degrees are in zoology. Now, I became a member of COoL Lab family at IISER, Pune in the new year of 2020. I am interested in understanding, functionalization and evolution of protocell membranes, towards transition from non-living to living chemical systems.

I have completed my Master’s in Zoology from Maulana Azad College, affiliated to The University Of Calcutta. I joined the COoL lab in January 2023. I am very enthusiastic about the translational approach of prebiotic chemistry towards synthetic biology. I am trying to understand how non-enzymatic template-directed replication may have happened in the prebiotic milieu. Apart from academics, I love trekking, listening to music, singing, and maybe cooking!!!

Fascinated by the universe's refusal to make sense, I earned my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Life Sciences from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, and NIT Rourkela. Since August 2024, I've been exploring how RNA monomers might have shielded themselves from Earth's volatile environment to form structures that sparked life. When not unraveling life's origins, I immerse myself in creative arts and recharge myself by feeding my brain the most unhinged ideas from fantasy novels.

I have completed my M.Sc. in Biochemistry from M.S. University, Baroda. Being a beginner in the field of Chemical Origin of Life, I am excited by the question of how the transition from chemistry to biology happened. In particular, I am intrigued by the idea of nonenzymatic template-directed replication under early Earth conditions. Besides doing science, I love origami, playing badminton, and writing biological science for a general non-biology audience.

After earning my Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Microbiology from the University of Calcutta and my Master's in Chemical and Molecular Biology from IIT Kharagpur, I became part of the Cool lab to engage in intriguing research on the origin of life.

I have completed my BSc in Chemistry and MSc in Organic Chemistry from Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune University. I am now associated with the COoL lab due to a collaboration project between Dr. Smita and Dr. Sudha that was made possible by SERB-TARE.

For PhD, IISER Pune seemed the best fit for me and thus have joined the COoL lab as a PhD grad student in Jan 2021. I am primarily interested in understanding the role amino acids and peptides might have played in the early evolution of life. In this regard, I am currently trying to understand how amino acid and nucleotides might have reacted in a one pot experiment and how this could have led to the modern-day emergent properties such as translation.

I have completed my BSc in biotechnology from St. Xavier's college Ahmedabad, joined IISER Pune as an Int-PhD student in August 2023. At COoL Lab I am working on how polymerisation could aid in emergence of biomolecular homochirality.

I am an M.Sc. Organic Chemistry graduate from St Joseph's university, Bengaluru. At COol lab, I am working on a project pertaining to Synthesis and characterization of nucleolipids using canonical and non-canonical nucleobases. After synthesis, we aim to characterize supramolecular assemblies these molecules form using various techniques. Besides work, I like meditating, gardening, dancing and mumma's rasam rice!