I am interested in understanding the impacts of the human footprint on wildlife connectivity using genomic tools. I have been involved in multiple conservation-related projects on different species. For my PhD, I am looking at the effects of habitat fragmentation on genetic connectivity and population dynamics of multiple species of mammals particularly ungulates and meso-carnivores in the central Indian landscape.

I also intend to study the impact of changing land-use patterns and major highways bisecting the landscape on animal movement and gene flow and how it affects the spatial distribution of genetic variation. Simultaneously, I am developing new methods in conservation genomics that would enable the use of poor-quality, non-invasive samples for the generation of genomic data.