Born and raised all the way till my high school in a small mountain valley known as Bandarban, I was always in proximate touch with nature. Probably that is why I ended up learning about oceans, mountains, islands, and as a whole, planet Earth. Rather than a student of Marine Science, I would Like to express myself as an ocean enthusiast. During my undergraduate, I had several opportunities to work on field projects focusing on biodiversity, coastal eco-engineering, etc. I worked with IOC-WESTPAC from 2019-2021 on documenting jellyfish in the Western Pacific region and I just loved it. Later, I completed my undergraduate thesis on gelatinous zooplankton morphometrics. I joined the University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center in Fall 2021 and currently pursuing my PhD degree in Marine Science.

As part of my Ph.D. research, I am using Flow Cytometry to investigate the dynamics between viral-mediated mortality of marine microbes and the influence of physicochemical features (e.g., stratification, eddy) in oceanic organic carbon flow. My ultimate research goal is to understand the influence of physical processes on plankton-microbe dynamics from a biogeochemical perspective and how interactions between marine microbial communities change over the predicted climate change.

Apart from studying, things I do for recreation are watching movies and TV series, reading novels (sorry, cooking) - and sometimes playing guitar. "The Big Bang Theory" is my all-time winner for TV series. And somehow, I don't know why, I have a great curiosity about Astronomy!