Experience

December 2018 - Present	Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad.
August 2015 - December 2018	Post-Doctoral Research Associate Department of Chemistry and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign , USA. Advisor:  Prof. Douglas A. Mitchell
August 2009 - May 2015	Graduate Reseach Assistant Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
December 2008 - March 2009	Guest Lecturer Department of Chemistry, Zakir Hussain College, University of Delhi, Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi,India.

Educational Background

Ph.D.	2015	Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University Texas, USA. Thesis:   Studies on the biosynthesis of menaquinone (vitamin K) and on the catabolism of pseudouridine Advisor:  Prof. Tadhg P. Begley
M.Sc	2007	Dept. of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. Advisor:  Prof. Sunil Kumar Khare
B.Sc.	2005	Hindu College, University Of Delhi.