I grew up in north Odisha and completed my masters in Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation from North Orissa University in 2012. I am currently engaged as a Junior Research Fellow in Zoological Survey of India. I am interested in Mollusca, mainly in the terrestrial gastropods. For doctoral research, I will be focusing on systematics, ecology and see how species distribution patterns have changed over the time, what factors may be behind on species distribution and abundance shifts, and ecological interactions. In future, I’ll concentrate my work on biogeography and phylogeny of Malacofauna in the Indian subcontinent.