Obtained a B.Sc in Microbiology (2007) from Goa University, M.Sc in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis (2008) from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Molecular Epidemiology of Lung Cancer from the University of Liverpool (2014). Currently working as a statistician/epidemiologist at the University of Dundee on the project “Molecular epidemiology of Clostridium difficile in Scotland“ since April 2014.