I received B.Sc. Honours (Geology) & M.Sc. (Applied Geology) from AMU, Aligarh, in 2002 & 2004, respectively, and PhD from the Indo-French Center for Groundwater Research, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, in 2011. My doctoral research focused on the links between land-use changes and groundwater quality in hard rock aquifers using GIS-based assessment techniques. I was a Research Fellow at LEGOS (Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales), Toulouse, France, in 2007, where I worked on the applications of satellite-based altimetric and GRACE-derived TWS to understand the dynamics of terrestrial waters. I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Pondicherry University from 2011 to 2015. In December 2015, I joined the Department of Geology, AMU, as Assistant Professor. In December 2020, I was appointed Associate Professor at the  Interdisciplinary Department of Remote Sensing & GIS Applications, AMU.

My research interests include modelling the dynamics of surface and subsurface terrestrial waters using Remote Sensing & GIS-based tools. I am working on a DST-SERB-funded project on "Assimilation of SAR-based inputs for optimizing hydraulic simulation of floods with special emphasis on vegetated and urban setups". 

I have 24 publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals (e.g. Hydrogeology, Advances in Space Research, Env. Earth Sc., J. Geol. Soc. of India, etc.), conference proceedings, and books. I am a regular reviewer in scientific journals and a member of academic associations and working groups like ISRS, IAHS, ISG, IAWEES, and CSDMS. I have delivered invited lectures at several workshops/training courses within India and conducted several workshops in the Interdisciplinary D/o Remote Sensing and GIS Applications. 

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