I am a single-molecule biophysicist working in Dr. Johan Paulsson's lab at Harvard Medical School. My current research involves developing technologies for high-throughput time-lapse imaging and single molecule counting to investigate the dynamics and fluctuations in gene expression in single bacterial cells. Before coming to Harvard in the Fall 2014, I spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. James C. Weisshaar's lab at University of Wisconsin Madison. During this period, my research involved developing and applying imaging techniques to monitor nucleoid (chromosomal DNA) dynamics in live bacteria cells.

I received my PhD from the Department of Chemistry in University of Wisconsin Madison under the guidance of Prof. James C. Weisshaar. As a research assistant in the Weisshaar group, I used super-resolution based single molecule imaging techniques to study the dynamics and spatial distribution of single molecules in live bacterial cells. I was very honored to receive the 2013 K. V. Reddy Award for "outstanding achievement as a graduate student" in Department of Chemistry in University of Wisconsin Madison.

I received my MSc from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) . During my MSc project under the supervision of Professor Sandeep Verma, I worked on synthesis of triskellion peptides with structural units similar to clathrin. We investigated whether these peptides can form vesicles like clathrins, by biomimetic self-assembly. The project was selected as the Best Masters Thesis Work in the Chemistry department (2008). In 2007, I was selected as a Visiting student research fellow (VSRP) to work on a research program in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. As a VSRP fellow, I did a short project under the guidance of Dr. Shyamalava Mazumdar in TIFR. The research involved modification of the heme active site of the cytochrome P450.

Previously I received my BSc (Hons) from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira under Calcutta University in 2006.

Apart from research, I enjoy travelling and photography in my free-time.