I will lead the Microbial Ecosytems Laboratory from January 2025. Currently, I am a Senior Scientist in the Microbial Systems Ecology group (co-led by Martin Ackermann and Olga Schubert) at ETH-Zurich and Eawag in Zurich, Switzerland.

Prior to my work at ETH-Zurich and EAWAG, I was a doctoral researcher in the Experimental Ecology and Evolution group led by Christian Kost at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. My undergraduate training as at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, India, where I gained a MSc in Microbiology.