I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India, in 2021. After that, I worked for about 1.5 years as a Design Engineer, where I gained hands-on experience in modeling and digitization in construction and structural engineering. During my undergraduate studies, I developed an interest in environmental and climate-related issues, which I explored further through my bachelor’s thesis on slope stability in the Lower Himalayan soils. This work looked at how changing rainfall patterns impact landslides along mountain roads.

In October 2023, I began my MSc in Environmental Engineering at TU Hamburg, focusing on environment and climate topics. Since August 2024, I’ve been working as a research assistant at the Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics. Here, I’ve contributed to various projects, including evaporation from rivers, salt crystallization in porous media, microplastic-soil interactions, and soil salinization. I also worked on understanding how surface turbulence affects evaporation in free surface (open channel) flows for my Projektarbeit.

Since March 2025, I’ve been working on my MSc thesis in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Reynold Chow at Wageningen University, Netherlands. My research focuses on creating a groundwater vulnerability map for PFAS contamination in South Africa, using GIS, HYDRUS, and a modified DRASTIC approach supported by statistical analysis.