I did my masters in Wildlife Science from Aligarh Muslim University (2009) & subsequently joined Wildlife Institute of India as a research fellow in 2009 in the project Monitoring Source Population of Tigers in Kanha Tiger Reserve from where I did my Ph.D. thesis on Tiger & Leopard interaction & their population dynamics. leopards using the modern quantitative techniques of spatially explicit capture recapture, known fate models & Bayesian open population models. I joined as a Research Scientist in the newly created NTCA Tiger Cell in April 2016. I coordinated North Eastern & Central India landscapes for the National Tiger co-predator prey & habitat assessment, Development & Implementation of MSTrIPES & Long-term carnivore & prey monitoring research project at Kanha tiger reserve.
