I completed my master’s in environmental sciences, from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. For my master dissertation, I worked on ‘Evaluation of groundwater quality with special emphasis on nitrate pollution and human health risk assessment in southern-eastern part of New Delhi, India’. Simultaneously, I was working on a project ‘Unravelling the submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) zones along the Indian subcontinent and its Islands’. These projects introduced me to intensive fieldwork (groundwater, porewater, seawater, and sediment samples) exercises on the southern coast of Andhra Pradesh, laboratory experiences (including analyzing nutrient, metal contamination, and stable isotopes (δ18O & δH)).

Currently, I am part of a project “DRYFLUX-II” is a global initiative to understand the role of dry inland water body on global carbon cycle. And I am working on the influence of the vegetation and nutrient on CO2 emission from dry sediments.

PI’s: Núria Catalán, Susana Bernal, Rafael Marcé