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 Master studies at TU Hamburg, and earned my MSc in Environmental Engineering in November 2025 focusing on environment and climate topics. From August 2024 to October 2025, I worked as a research assistant and tutor 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. For my thesis I worked with Dr.-Ing. Milad Aminzadeh to understand and quantify how water table depth and airflow regime jointly regulate evaporation and surface crystallization.

Now I, work with Forschungszentrum Jülich as a Doctoral researcher, where I am furthering my research in soil health from a microbiology-soil organic carbon point of view.