Evolutionary Biologist. Astrobiologist.
Exploring Complexity, Energy, Evolution, Life, and the Universe—one scientific breath at a time.
My Journey
2021 - Present
Doctorate in Philosophy
Ecology and Evolution
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US
2020
Thesis Intern
Eco-Evolutionary Mathematics
EEM Team, IBENS
PSL Research University, Paris, France
2019 - 2020
Masters in Science
Ecology and Evolution
Institut de Biologie de l'ÉNS
PSL Research University, Paris, France
2018
Research Trainee
Experimental Evolution
Center of Excellence in Bio-interactions
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
2014-2018
Bachelor of Technology
Genetic Engineering
Department of Genetic Engineering
SRM University, Chennai, India
Projects
Microbial Life at Thermodynamic Limits: Linking Low Energy Metabolism and High-Temperature Adaptation
Collaborators: Regis Ferriere, Solange Duhamel, Francois Guyot, Aurore Gorlas, Antonin Affholder and you?
Join me in my research as I explore how cellular complexity and energy dynamics play a role in organisms' ability to adapt to various temperatures. In the course I am trying to address the following question: How low-temperature organisms evolved a high temperature lifestyle? How did the ancestral high-temperature organisms inhabit and adapt to low-temperature environments? Why can’t modern-day low-temperature organisms evolve hyperthermophily?
