Geomicrobiology, Assistant Professor, Geology & SREL My research focuses on exploring life in extreme and unexplored environments with a broader goal of understanding the origin of life, microbial adaptation/evolution, and extraterrestrial life. My research uses multi-omics approaches and machine learning-based models to understand the role of microbes in the Earth system. My current research activities include developing bioinformatics tools and streamlined pipelines for data mining and extracting information from sequence-based data. Some of the research themes that my lab is going to focus on are Microbial community function in extreme environments Role of viruses and eukaryotic microorganisms in ecosystem function and service Astrobiology Role of microbes in fate and transport of contaminants Education Education: Ph.D., Geomicrobiology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, 2019 M.Tech, Environmental Biotechnology, Jadavpur University, India, 2014 B.Tech, Biotechnology, West Bengal University of Technology, India, 2012 Research Research Areas: Geomicrobiology Research Interests: Geomicrobiology Microbial ecology Bioinformatics Machine Learning Courses Taught Courses Regularly Taught: GEOL 1120
