BOARD of advisors – India

Mr. Ajay Bisaria is a strategic advisor and commentator on international affairs. He is an advisor for India for OMERS, a Toronto-based pension fund, and is on the advisory councils of several global companies. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation and is the Chairman, Ministry of Steel Task Force, Govt of India studying the global experience in green steel. He has been involved in publishing and lecturing on issues related to trade, finance, and geopolitics, with a focus on South Asia, Eurasia, Central Asia, and Canada. He has written a series of op-eds on Pakistan in the Times of India in 2022-2023. His first book, Anger Management, on the troubled diplomatic relationship between India and Pakistan, is being released in January 2024, by Aleph Book Company.

Previously, Mr Bisaria has had a distinguished diplomatic career spanning 35 years as a member of the Indian Foreign Service. During this period, he served as Indian High Commissioner to Canada and Pakistan, and as Ambassador to Poland and Lithuania. He also represented the country at the World Bank in Washington DC, in embassies in Berlin and Moscow, served in various capacities in the Ministry of External Affairs, and as a key aide to Prime Minister Vajpayee.

In March 2020, Mr. Bisaria was appointed High Commissioner to Canada. During the Covid Pandemic, he facilitated the repatriation of Indian nationals under the Vande Bharat scheme ‘air bubble’ and led India’s ‘Vaccine Maitri’ program which created greater trust and friendship in India’s strategic ties with Canada. Through his tenure, Mr. Bisaria worked on the India-Canada economic corridor, advocated stronger economic ties between G-20 economies, and strengthened bilateral relations enhancing FDIs to over US$60 billion in India particularly in the infrastructure sector.

From December 2017 to February 2020, Mr. Bisaria served as India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan. During this tenure, Mr Bisaria helped India establish a relationship with the newly elected Prime Minister Mr Imran Khan, worked on efforts to expand Indian nationals’ access to the Kartarpur Corridor and represented India at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva to promote global awareness of India’s record on human rights.

Prior to that, Mr Bisaria was India’s Ambassador to Poland with concurrent accredition to Lithuania from 2015- 2017. During his time in Poland, he focused on forging economic partnerships and deepening India’s cultural footprint in Central and Eastern Europe. He also served as India’s representative in the Warsaw-based Community of Democracies, representing India in the meetings in Warsaw, Geneva and New York.

Between 2009-2014, Mr. Bisaria served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs where he coordinated India’s foreign policy and bilateral relations with the Eurasia region that led the development of the India-Russia ‘special and privileged strategic partnership’. He coordinated India’s approach to six annual Indo-Russian summits, including the first annual summit between Prime Minister Modi and President Putin in India in December 2014.

From 2004-2008, Mr Bisaria was posted at the World Bank in Washington D.C. as an Advisor to the executive director for South Asia, where he worked on development projects and aid issues, contributing to corporate governance and India’s multilateral economic diplomacy.

From 1999-2004, Mr Bisaria was posted as Secretary and Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee. During this period, he advised Mr Vajpayee on various economic, defence, and foreign policy initiatives and attended more than 50 international summits with the Prime Minister as part of his delegation.

From 1995-1999, Mr Bisaria was posted as First Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Berlin where he facilitated commercial relations at a time of rising economic engagement between a unifying Germany and a liberalizing India. Prior to that, he served in the Ministry of Commerce (1992–95), in the era of economic liberlization contributing to a new trade policy paradigm managing complex transition of India’s trade arrangements from a rupee-based to a hard currency regime. Before that he served as Under Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs on the East Europe (1991 – 92) when India was engaged in building new relationships with the post-Soviet countries, and at the Indian Embassy in Moscow (1988 – 1991) where he was attached to the economic and political wings of the Embassy. He worked as a Soviet internal affairs specialist in the months leading up to the dissolution of the USSR.

Mr Bisaria has a bachelor’s degree in economics from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University, an MBA (Finance and Marketing) from IIM Calcutta and a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University. He has received distinguished alumnus awards from Modern School, New Delhi and IIM Calcutta. He knows Russian, German, and Urdu, apart from Hindi and English.

Former Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Former Vice-Chancellor, Kumaun University, Nainital

Former Vice-Chancellor, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur

Former Dean, School of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi

Former Director, AIRF, JNU, New Delhi

Former Director, Academic Staff College, JNU, New Delhi

Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar is an Indian educationist currently serving as the National Science Chair at Jawaharlal Nehru University, which has been bestowed to him by the DST, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Previously he has served as the 27th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University and has also been the Vice Chancellor of several other universities.

Prof. Bhatnagar is well known for developing recombinant vaccine against anthrax. This technology has been transferred to the industry. His team also developed a DNA vaccine against Rabies. His research group has initiated research in other important infectious disease systems like Mycobacterium and Brucella. His areas of interest are Molecular biology of infectious diseases, Recombinant Vaccine Development, and Programmed Cell Death in Prokaryotes.

Prof. Bhatnagar has served the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) at various important positions like Chairperson, Director and Dean. He pioneered the teaching of Biotechnology at the JNU, the first of its kind in India. Because of his efforts School of Biotechnology has been ranked at No.1 biotechnology teaching program in the country consistently. He has also established a world class Biological Safety Laboratory Level III at JNU.

Prof Bhatnagar has published approximately 200 research papers with more than 6000 citations and has supervised more than 50 PhD students. Prof. Bhatnagar’s research has been ranked 7th (The first six were from Pasteur Institute, Harvard Medical School, NIH and USAMRIID) in the anthrax research globally. Recognizing his extraordinary contribution in the field of research and innovation he has been awarded with many prestigious awards and recognition few of them are President’s Award for Best Innovation by President of India, ICMR Award for Outstanding research work in the field of Immunology by ICMR, Government of India. Prof Bhatnagar is an elected fellow of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore and National Academy of Science, Allahabad.

Prof. Bhatnagar obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur and subsequently worked at Freiburg University, Germany, University of Caen, France and NIH & USAMRIID, USA.

Prof. Sushma Bhatnagar is Chief of the I.R. Cancer Hospital and Head of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Care at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and President, Indian Association of Palliative care.

Prof Bhatnagar is a former Director of the National Cancer Institute, Jhajjar, AIIMS –  the apex Centre for Translational Research in Prevention & Care for India Centric Cancers and has the largest Public Funded Hospital Project at Rs 2035 Crores. NCI is set in 60 acres within the Jhajjar campus of AIIMS and 2.5 Lakh Sq Meter built-up area. The National Cancer Institute has 700+ beds dedicated for cancer prevention, care and research, 350+ dwelling units and 600+ hostel rooms for doctors and staff. 3000+ career opportunities to tap the best brains in oncology. This institute has one of Asia’s first fully automated core-labs.

Prof Bhatnagar has been the President of the Indian Association of Palliative care, since 2018. This organization was established in 1994 in consultation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India as a national forum to connect, support and motivate individuals and institutions involved in palliative care. In this role, Prof Bhatnagar leads the efforts implementing palliative care educational programs for health care professionals; Creating and organizing awareness programs for the public and society at large; Engaging in advocacy with the Government and other relevant agencies both within India and across the world; Collaborating with both the Central and State Governments to develop and implement the National and State level palliative care policies to ensure that palliative care is accessible and affordable to those who need it; and Assist in implementing the amended Narcotic rules to ensure that morphine and other opioids are freely available and accessible to those in need of it.

Dr. Bhatnagar has been on the Board of Directors, International Association for Hospice and Paillative Care since 2015 where she has taken an active role in advocacy work on ketamine, advising stakeholders of its importance in developing countries, and the need to vote against any scheduling of ketamine.

Prof Bhatnagar has served in various other international organization such as a Council member, International Association for the Study of Pain; Board member, Asia Pacific Hospice Network;  and Member, Implementation task force of Lancet Commission report on Palliative care. At the national level, she has been the Chairperson of COVID services, NCI, Jhajjar, AIIMS; Founder of Cancer Treatment Centre (CTC) project for Pain free India; Convener of DNB, Palliative Medicine by National Board of Examination; Founder DM (Onco-Anaesthesia) & MD (Palliative Medicine) at AIIMS Delhi; and Founder of policies Pain Policy and End of Life Care Policy at AIIMS, New Delhi. She is a member of the Advisory Group of the National Palliative Care Program at the Ministry of Health in India, and coordinates ‘Pain Policy’ at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the formulation of Palliative Care Guidelines for India and the National Palliative Care Training Program of the Government of India. She has also been involved with the organization of several large conferences including the16th International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC), the 2nd International Conference on Interventional Pain and was scientific chair of the 14th and 18th International Conference of the IAPC.

Dr. Bhatnagar is a reviewer of several international journals related to palliative care, has published around 450 articles in scientific journals, contributed chapters to six books and edited the book, ‘Freedom from Pain’. She is also Chief Editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and Associate Editor of the Indian Journal of Pain.

Recognized internationally for her work, Dr. Bhatnagar has received several awards including Leadership and Excellence Award amongst The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries by the Cancer Aids Society; International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Award for Excellence in Clinical Research or Practice and/or Policy Changes in Pain Management in the Developing World, and the Distinguished Pain Physician of the country by the World Institute of Pain, Milan, 2012-2013. She was nominated for ASCO- Women who Conquer Mentorship Award, 2020.

Her area of interest is ‘Cancer Pain Management and Palliative Care’. Her teaching and research experience includes pain and palliative care to undergraduate and postgraduate medical and nursing students, and senior and junior residents and has supervised students’ theses on radiotherapy, medical oncology and general surgery, theology and psychology. She is currently deputy team leader of the Training of Trainers in Palliative Care Program for Bangladesh, a project of the Lien Collaborative for Palliative Care to enhance palliative care leadership and capacity in developing countries.

Mr. C.K. Mishra has been a Civil Servant belonging to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) since 1983. He superannuated as a secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Government of India. Prior to this, he was Secretary in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and also held the additional charge of Ministry of AYUSH, Govt of India.

As the Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, he led the Indian efforts at addressing climate change issues and at policy interventions in matters relating to pollution and Air Quality. He led the Indian negotiations at important Forums such as United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Conference of the Parties (COP)) to assess progress in dealing with climate change; Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and various other multilateral events. He was also the administrative head of Forest & Wildlife conservation efforts in India where India saw a continuous increase in Forest cover. His interventions and policy initiatives have brought India in the category of very few countries in the world on course to achieve the 2-degree target of global warming.

Prior to this, as the Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, he led one of the largest public health programs globally. He has been the leader in implementing ‘Mission Indradhanush’ – the largest ever focused campaign to immunize children. His views on Maternal child health are well accepted globally as he brings a practical implementation perspective to his views. His proactive policy changes helped India see a huge reduction in maternal and child mortality. He held leadership positions as head of many international organizations relating to maternal child health, tobacco con troll, population stabilization etc. He has also held important leadership positions in the field of Industry, Education and the social sector, both at central as well as provincial level.

In about 37 years of public service, Mr. C. K. Mishra has served as an administrator, policy-maker and public health strategist holding a wide range of assignments in the fields of Health, Education, Industry and Power. Mr. C.K. Mishra is recognized for his significant contributions to improving the Indian Public Health landscape.

Mr. C.K. Mishra earned his bachelor’s degree in history (Hons) from St. Stephens College, Delhi University. In addition to this, he has received a Post Graduate Diploma in Media Law at NALSAR, Hyderabad. He has also completed the Advanced Leadership Program from Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), Australia.

Chairman, Institute of Internal Medicine, Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Director, Medical Education, Medanta.

Chairman, Board of Advisors, Princeton Foundation for Peace and Learning – India 

Prof Guleria currently serves as the President of AIIMS Bilaspur, a state-of-the-art government medical institute with 18 specialty & 17 super specialty departments, 18 modular operation theaters, 750 beds with 64 ICU beds. Previously he was the Director of the AIIMS, New Delhi from March 2017 to September 2022. Established in 1956 under the Government of India, AIIMS is the apex medical research institute of India and is rated as one of the top medical institutes in the world.

Prof Guleria is an international expert in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine. He has been Advisor to and associated with several international organizations including the Center for Disease Control, USA, WHO Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE), Geneva, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, European Commission, and has worked at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

Prof Guleria was the personal physician to Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India since 1998. He has been a member of several committees in the Government of India including the Joint Monitoring Committee to monitor outbreaks of new diseases including Pandemics, bird flu, Ebola, etc., to formulate National policy to control antibiotic resistance in India; Program Advisory Committee on Health Science of the Department of Science and Technology; Project Review Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research; Project Advisory committee of the National Institute of Virology; and Project Advisory Committee on Nutritional Profile of Assam, Manipur and Meghalaya of the ICMR. He has been an advisor to several organizations like UPSC and a member of the Selection Committee for the International Commonwealth fellowship. He is a fellow and member of several National and International bodies including the National Academy of Medical Sciences, the International Medical Science Academy, the Indian Association of Sarcoidosis and Granulomatous Disorders, the Association of Physicians of India, the National College of Chest Physicians of India, Indian Chest Society and AIDS Society of India. ​

Prof Guleria sits on the editorial boards of a number of medical journals such as the Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Lung India. He has done pioneering work on respiratory muscle functions, lung cancer, asthma and COPD and has more than 400 publications in International and National journals and 49 chapters in various National and International books. He has delivered more than 300 lectures in International and National conferences. He has been invited as a faculty to deliver talks in various conferences across the globe and has organized various national and international conferences at AIIMS over the last three decades on HIV, AIDS, Tuberculosis, and other respiratory diseases. He has been an external examiner to various universities including Delhi University, PGI, Chandigarh, VP Chest Institute, KGMC, Lucknow, BHU Varanasi, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Sher-e Kashmir Institute, Srinagar and Universities in Nepal.

During the Pandemic, Prof Guleria co-authored a book Till We Win: India’s Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic, published by Penguin Random House India that became one of the national bestsellers. This book provides unique blend of information on macro (health policy) as well as micro (how to stay safe in and during pandemic period) issues. The book has sections on viruses, why pandemic happens; India’s response to pandemic before and during lockdowns and unlock periods, and key learnings for health sector during these periods. The book has been termed as “An easy to read and an important book driven by science, data and reason’ by the editor in chief of India’s leading newspaper the Hindustan Times.

Prof Guleria has been working to enhance awareness of various diseases, their prevention and treatment and has given a large number of talks on AIR, Doordarshan, Lok Sabha TV, Zee TV, NDTV, Star News, India TV and Aaj Tak. He has also participated in interactive TV shows for youth regarding problems of smoking and how to quit smoking. He has been actively participating in various environmental causes and has been an expert at various environmental forums concerning air pollution as part of an awareness campaign and green school initiative on the environment.

Prof Guleria has been a dedicated teacher for undergraduate, postgraduate and DM fellows having supervised more than 40 students in MD (Medicine) and more than 25 students in DM in Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine. Dr. Guleria is the first Indian to get a Doctorate of Medicine (DM) in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The Department of Pulmonary Medicine & Sleep Disorders he created in 2011 has been ranked as the best department in Pulmonary Medicine in the country multiple times by the NIELSEN survey published in WEEK.

“Covid pandemic has posed substantial technical and ethical challenges highlighting the urgent need of enhanced collaboration amongst Healthcare Professionals in India, US, and across the globe to further strengthen the healthcare systems. Such multilateral knowledge and resource sharing is key to bolster global endeavors in managing communicable as well as and non-communicable diseases.” Prof Randeep Guleria.

Prof Guleria has received innumerable awards including Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award in India, and the Dr. B C Roy National Award under the eminent medical person category by the Medical Council of India. Prof Guleria comes from a family of eminent physicians; he is the son of Padma Shri Prof J S Guleria, former Dean of AIIMS, and his younger brother Padma Shri Sandeep Guleria, is a surgeon. ​

Prof Guleria’s ample global experience and stature render him an unimaginable vantage point in the field of healthcare. Princeton Foundation will establish a Healthcare Advisory Board with Prof Guleria’s guidance to shape our evolving global strategy bringing together various governmental, non-governmental, and professional organizations envisaged in our “Heal the Humanity”.

References:

1-AIIMS races ahead of Oxford, and Cambridge in rankings for best medical schools in the world.
2-“Need to focus on preventive health & life cycle approach of health” – Dr. Randeep Guleria, Chairman, CII Public Health Council, and Former Director, AIIMS.
3-Emanuel EJ et al. What Covid Has Taught the World about Ethics. N Engl J Med 2022; 387:1542-1545
4-DeSalvo K et al. Public Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs. NAM Perspect. 2021 Apr 7;2021:10.31478/202104c. DOI: 10.31478/202104c. PMID: 34532688; PMCID: PMC8406505.
5-Princeton Foundation ‘Heal the Humanity 2.0 project.

Batch of 1979 Chair Professor, Department of Physics
Joint Faculty, Department of Electrical Engineering
Coordinator, Centre of Excellence in Quantum Technologies
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi

Member, Healthcare Advisory Board, Princeton Foundation for Peace and Learning, India

Dr. Rajendra Singh joined IIT, Delhi in 2006 where he is currently a Professor at the Department of Physics with a Joint Faculty position at the Department of Electrical Engineering. His areas of interest are GaN based materials and devices, gallium oxide based devices, growth and characterization of semiconductor nanowires, wafer bonding and layer splitting of crystalline materials, 2D-3D interfaces, 2D quantum materials and devices, CVD, MOCVD and MBE growth of semiconductors and quantum materials, Nanolithography and nanofabrication. He has made significant contributions for the establishing of state-of-the-art Nanoscale Research facility (NRF) at IIT Delhi.

Prof Singh completed his M.Sc. (Physics) from D.B.S. College, Dehra Dun in 1995. After that he joined Inter University Accelerator Centre (formerly Nuclear Science Centre), New Delhi for Ph.D. His Ph.D. work was related to the study of the effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on electrical properties of Si and GaAs. After PhD, he joined Walter Schottky Institute (WSI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany as a post-doctoral fellow. There he worked on the design, fabrication and characterization of InP-based heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs). He extensively used Class 100 Cleanroom facilities at WSI working on various processing tools such as photolithography, wet etching, reactive ion etching, UHV metallization and rapid thermal annealing.

In January 2004 he joined the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany continuing his post-doctoral fellowship. There he worked in the area of direct wafer bonding and layer splitting of semiconductors for the fabrication of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and strained silicon-on-insulator (sSOI). He worked in a Class 10 Cleanroom facility at MPI Halle using processing tools such as wet benches, wafer bonding system, plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) and annealing furnaces. There he also initiated activities on hydrogen implantation induced layer splitting (called as ion cut process) of GaN, AlN and ZnO.

Prof Singh has about 160 publications in International Journals and a similar number of
publications in conference proceedings/edited volumes/abstracts in National / International conferences and workshops. He is the recipient of “MRSI Medal Award” for 2017 and “Teaching Excellence Award” from IIT Delhi in 2018.

Dean, Biosciences and Health Research

Trivedi School of Biosciences

Ashoka University, Haryana

Member, Healthcare Advisory Board, Princeton Foundation for Peace and Learning, India

Prof Anurag Agrawal is an Indian pulmonologist, medical researcher, and Dean of the Trivedi School of Biosciences and Health Research at Ashoka University since 2022. Previously, he was the Director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.

Prof Agrawal’s research covers the fields of lung diseases, asthma and functional issues related to mitochondria. He is credited with establishing a functional link between the above three diseases, thereby elucidating how stem cells donated mitochondrial cells to human lung cells that had turned dysfunctional. He is involved in translational research on disorders such as obesity, asthma and diabetes. His interest in the interface of emerging technologies such as genomics and artificial intelligence with biology and medicine, led to his serving as co-chair of the Lancet and Financial Times commission on governing health futures 2030 and as a member of ‘Responsible AI’ subgroup of the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI). During the COVID19 pandemic, he led discovery of the Delta variant, served as co-chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Group for SARS CoV2 viral evolution and also as a member of the pathogens project of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Prof Agrawal is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards conferred by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research. He is also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology 2015, Sun Pharma Science Foundation award in Medical Sciences (Clinical Research) 2020, Lady Tata Young Researcher Award in 2010, Swarnajayanthi fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology 2010, and Senior Fellowship of the  Wellcome Trust  DBT India Alliance. He has been elected to the Fellowship of all three Indian national science academies and the national academy of medical sciences.

Prof Agrawal joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi in 1989 for his MBBS
after which he moved to the US for his residency at the Baylor College of Medicine where he also worked as a fellow at the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care and as an assistant professor. In 2007, he received PhD from the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute of the University of Delhi.

Head, Animal Plant Interactions lab
Department of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara College,
University of Delhi, India.

Member, Healthcare Advisory Board, Princeton Foundation for Peace and Learning, India

Prof Vartika Mathur has been associated with Sri Venkateswara College since 2006. She
specializes in Multitrophic interactions and microbial applications in environment monitoring, agriculture and therapeutics. Her microbial culture facility has a repository of more than 600 microbial symbionts isolated from various plants, ants and frogs. She has authored 4 books, 9 chapters and 21 papers in National and International journals of high repute.

She has obtained 20 National and International grants/Consultancy projects from Government and private organizations, including MoEF & CC, DST, SERB, Nuffic, NAM S & amp; T Centre, UGC, DU, IGL, Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Eureka Forbes Pvt. Ltd., PI industries and Honda Cars Ltd. Her ongoing National and International collaborations focus on the chemical ecology of animal- plant-microbe interactions and ‘One Health’ of plants, environment and humans. She has MoU for conducting research and outreach activities with various institutes such as AIIMS, New Delhi, Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry of Academy of Science, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Faculty of Agriculture Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, Czech University of Life Science Prague, Indraprastha Gas Limited, K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, Mumbai and PSES Modern College, Pune.

She was the first Indian to receive NFP-Nuffic fellowship to pursue PhD from Wageningen
University, Netherlands. During PhD, she also obtained the CDI-UEB European Mobility Grant to do part of research work at University of Rennes, France. She was also invited as visiting Professor to Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany in 2023.

She has supervised 5 PhD students as well as 94 Bachelors, 11 Masters students for
summer/winter training; 5 Masters dissertations, one JRF/SRF and 3 International doctoral and postdoctoral students. She teaches Animal behaviour, Research methodology, Environmental management and Wildlife Conservation to undergraduate students. She also volunteered as research advisor from 2017 to 2022 in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi.