EMPLOYMENT, ACADEMIC POSITIONS

CURRENT

• Assistant Professor, Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, India.

PREVIOUS

• Technical Manager, Department of Biosciences, Durham University, UK.

• Royal Society Newton International Fellow, Imperial College London, UK. (Supervisor: Dr. Naomi Nakayama)

• Lawski Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University, Sweden. (Supervisor: Dr. Olivier Van Aken)

• Postdoc, INRAE/ Université Clermont Auvergne, PIAF lab, France. (Supervisor: Dr. Nathalie Leblanc-Fourneir)

• Postdoc, Yeungnam University, South Korea. (Supervisor: Prof. Hanhong Bae)

• Researcher, Bose Institute, India. (Supervisor: Prof. Shubho Chaudhuri)

Education

• PhD: Yeungnam University, South Korea 

• MSc: Bose Institute, University of Calcutta, India 

• BSc: Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, India 

ACTIVITIES

TALKS

• Mechanostimulation: a promising strategy for sustainable agriculture.

Université Clermont Auvergne, PIAF lab, France (2025, INVITED)

University of Lincoln, UK (2025, INVITED)

Keele University, UK (2025, INVITED)

Royal Society Meeting of Minds, UK (2023)

Postdoctoral Research Showcase, Imperial College London (2022)

4th Royal Society Research Fellows' Network, UK (2022)

• Role of histone modifications in mechano-responsive gene expression in poplar.

10th International Plant Biomechanics Conference, France (2022)

Vellore Institute of Technology, India (2022, KEY NOTE)

• Plant-sound vibration interaction: an ocean of possibilities.

National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, UK (2023, INVITED) 

Lincoln Medical School, UK (Invertebrate Sound and Vibration Meeting 2023, INVITED)

• Insights into sound vibration-mediated molecular alteration and its effect on stress response in Arabidopsis.

Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), France (GDR PhyP Workshop, 2018, INVITED)

Seoul National University, South Korea (2017)

Korea University, South Korea (2017)