Research Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, Otto H. York Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
November 2025 - Present
Programmable, Responsive, Adaptive Microfluidics for Natural Applications Laboratory, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Desalination and Water Treatment
August 2024 - September 2025
The Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
PI: Dr. Avner Ronen
Ph.D. Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering
June 2023 - August 2023
Advanced Water Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Junior Research Fellow, Environmental Science and Engineering Department
January 2018 - December 2018
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
Education
Ph.D., Hydrology and Water Quality
October 2019 - August 2024
The Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Thesis title: “Laser-induced graphene composites for antibacterial/viral applications in the environment”
Thesis advisor: Prof. Christopher J. Arnusch
M.Sc., Environmental Science and Engineering
July 2016 - March 2019
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
Thesis title: "Solar Photocatalytic Decolorization of Methylene Blue Dye in Aqueous Suspension Using Ferric Citrate Complex as a Homogeneous Catalyst"
Thesis advisor: Prof. Amritanshu Shriwastav
B.Sc., Chemistry
July 2013 - June 2016
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College,
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India