The central theme of my research is to understand how water flows within natural landscapes, tracing it from the time it enters the ecosystem through rainfall or snowfall to the time it finally emerges into the nearby stream. I have taken a data-centric approach to problem solving, working with a wide range of dataset ranging from tracers like stable water isotopes, eddy-covariance carbon and water flux measurements, satellite remote sensing, tree rings and forest inventory, etc.

Growing up in the city of Patna along the banks of river Ganga in Northern India, I pursued my Bachelors and Masters in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and then a PhD in Environmental Sciences from University of Lausanne in Switzerland. I then worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich and am currently employed as a Research Scientist at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos.