​I completed my B. Sc. (Chemistry) in 1990 from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College (University of Calcutta) and M. Sc. (Biochemistry) in 1992 from University of Calcutta. I performed my Ph. D. work (Molecular Biology: 1993-1998) at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai), where I investigated molecular aspects of naturally acquired immunity to human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

I worked as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, USA (1999-2004), where I initiated the study on homologous recombination (HR) in P. falciparum; and begin to understand how HR could be involved in the generation of genomic diversities in this parasite.

I started my career as a Research Scientist in Tulane University School of Medicine, USA (2004-2007), where I worked on DNA repair and telomere maintenance of yeast chromosomes and found intriguing relationship between Mre11 (a protein involved in DNA repair) mediated DNA damage response (DDR) and telomere maintenance. I also worked as a Visiting Research Scientist in Northwestern University, USA (October 2005-January 2006). I am a recipient of prestigious INDO-US Professorship in microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology (2009).

I joined University of Hyderabad in March 2007 as a Reader of Biochemistry. Currently (since April 2015) I am a Professor of Biochemistry. I have served as the Head of the Department of Biochemistry from 1st February 2017 to 31st January 2020. My teaching activities include Molecular Biology; Gene Regulation and Recombinant DNA Technology. I have received the Chancellor’s Award in 2014 from the Chancellor of University of Hyderabad for outstanding contributions to teaching and research. My laboratory at the University of Hyderabad has made seminal contributions in the field of DNA double strand break repair in the apicomplexan parasites.