About

I am a chemical engineer by training and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering advised by Dr. Leanne M. Gilbertson at Duke University with 7+ years of research experience across environmental catalysis, materials design and characterization, and life cycle assessment (LCA). My doctoral research establishes structure–property–sustainability relationships for engineered nanomaterials in environmental, agricultural, and energy applications. I have led collaborative LCA projects with academic and industry partners, including BASF Corporation, with findings published in Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

I earned B.Tech. + M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), India (Class of 2021), graduating Rank 1 with the Institute Silver Medal for academic excellence. During my studies, I completed multiple research internships. I worked with Dr. Taraknath Das at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee on catalytic oxidation of volatile organic compounds; with Dr. Jafar Soltan at the University of Saskatchewan on designing catalytic ozonation reactors for the removal of recalcitrant water pollutants. As part of my master’s thesis with Dr. Sujit Sen at NIT, I developed a sustainable approach for synthesizing metal oxide catalysts using biogenic extracts from plant leaves.