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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Colorado Denver where I probe different ways of understanding air pollution and its effects.

- I graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Technology (with a minor in Physics) from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2013.

- I then read for an MSc in Environmental Change and Management (2014) at the School of Geography and Environment, and an MBA (2015) at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

- After graduating from Oxford, I worked at the Science Division at UN Environment in Nairobi (2015-2016).

- I joined the Senseable City Lab at MIT full-time as a Research Fellow (2016-2017),  and also worked part-time as a Drawdown Fellow.

- I did my PhD in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT  between September, 2017 - June, 2021

- I have been a member of Dr Ralph Kahn's group at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 2017

- I was a visiting researcher at the Global Center for Clean Air Research at the University of Surrey in the summer of 2018 

-I have been a visiting student at the Harvard School of Public Health between 2018 - 2021

-I worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization between January - September, 2021 (Curricular Practical Training)

A detailed CV can be found here