Education
1999–2002 Bachelors in Industrial Microbiology & General Microbiology (University of Pune, India)
2002–2004 Masters in Microbiology (University of Pune, India)
2004–2007 PhD studies at the Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-1, Cellular Biophysics), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
2007 Dr. rer. nat., Universität zu Köln, Germany
Postgraduate training
2007–2009 Post-doctoral Fellow, Forschungszentrum Caesar, Germany
2009–2014 Post-doctoral Fellow, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2014–2018 Adjunct Assistant Professor in Microbiology, Tuljaram Chaturchand College, Baramati, India
2018–2019 Post-doctoral Fellow, IISER Bhopal, India
2019-2020 Post-doctoral Fellow, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
2020-current Post-doctoral Fellow, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Fellowships and Awards
2001 JNCASR-Summer Research Fellowship, India
2003 NCCS-Summer Research Fellowship, India
2004 All India GATE - Ranked 112
2004 State Eligibility test for teaching in Maharashtra & Goa
2007 Poster Prize, European Biophysics Congress, London, UK
2016 Start-up Grant, Ministry of Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India
2016 Start-up Award, DST-AIT, Government of India‑Embassy of Switzerland.
2019 Forschungszentrum Jülich fellowship programme for excellent guest scientists
2021 Helmholtz Enterprise Field Study
2022 Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy Trainee Network
2023 Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg