I joined the Department of Bio-Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Jharkhand, India in May 2005. I obtained my M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees from Ranchi University. My main area of research are exploring the environment for degradation of pollutants, plant & pathogen intereations and instrumentation. I have published more than 25 papers in international and national journals such as Planta, Plant Cell Reports, PLoS ONE and Gene. I am a life member of the Association of Microbiologists of India, Zoological Society of India and the Indian Society for Technical Education.