About

I was born and bought up in Roopnagar, a small town in the north Indian state of Punjab. I was awarded national scholarships for maintaining an excellent academic record in my secondary school examinations and received the certificate of merit for being among the top 0.1% of successful candidates in mathematics in the All India Secondary School Examination. Thereafter, I attended the Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, where I gained my B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees. Here too, I received university medals for excellence in academics throughout my bachelor's and master's courses. I completed my Ph.D. in 2011 and was entitled “Peptoids as Antimicrobial and Collagen Mimetics: A Computational Study”.

I started my teaching career in 2007 as an Assistant Professor at Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College, Chandigarh. In 2010 I rejoined Panjab University as Assistant Professor, where I am currently involved in teaching and research. In my post-doctoral research at University College London (U.K.) I analyzed and characterized peptides derived from the family of intermediate filament proteins that have the ability to bind unpolymerized tubulin. After completing my research in London, I returned to Panjab University in 2015. Currently, I am the Chairperson of the Department of Biophysics and also the Warden of Working Women Hostel here at Panjab University.