June 2011   Doctorate in Theoretical Physics,
                 Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
                    Advisor:  M.A.J. Michels
                    Thesis: "Modelling bias-induced changtes of organic field-effect transistor characteristics"
June 2006   Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering,
                  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
                    Advisor: B. Mazhari
                    Thesis: "Contact resistance of top-contract organic field-effect transistors"

Since May 2017             Group Leader, Leibniz Institute for Polymer research, Dresden

September 2011-2017    Post-Doctoral Fellow
                                           2015-2017: University of Fribourg, Switzerland
                                               Group Leader: Joseph Brader
                                           2014-2015: University of Göttingen, Germany
                                               Group Leader: Christoph Schmidt
                                           2011-2014: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
                                               Group Leader: Fred MacKintosh

• TU Dresden
         Young investigator award, Technical University Dresden (2019)
• Best Instructor           
         Computational physics course, Technical University Eindhoven (2009)
• Best Instructor           
         Laboratory physics course, Technical University Eindhoven (2008)
• Best Paper                 
         Student-paper award in International conference on systemics, cybernetics, and informatics, India (2005)

• Active chains and dimers: Emergence of chemotaxis, University of Texas, Austin, USA (2022)
• Active chains and dimers: Emergence of chemotaxis, University of Paris Diderot, France (2022)
• Chemotaxis of cargo-carrying self propelled particles, University of Fribourg, Fribourg Swtzerland (2020)
• Chemotaxis of cargo-carrying self propelled particles, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (2020)
• Lorentz force induces inhomogeneity and fluxes in active systems, Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2019)
• Lorentz force induces inhomogeneity and fluxes in active systems, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden( 2019)
• Nonlinear mechanics of fibrous networks, DPG, Berlin (2018)
• Mechanical critical behavior of fibrous networks, Dresden Polymer Discussions, Meissen (2018)
• Green-Kubo approch to active Brownian systems, University of Fribourg, Fribourg Swtzerland (2017)
• Molecular motors drive criticality in an active network, MIT, Boston (2015)
• Strain driven criticality in a passive network, Harvard University, Boston (2015)
• Strain driven criticality in a passive network, University of Chicago, Chicago (2015)
• Strain controlled criticality governs the mechanical behavior of fibrous networks, Thirdinfinity Conference, Göttingen (2015)
• Residence time of particle in a driven diffusive system with Langmuir Kinetics, Sapienza University, Rome (2015)
• Nonlinear elasticity of biopolymer networks, University of Basel, Switzeraland (2015)
• Nonlinear elasticity as an athermal critical phenomenon, Orsay University, Paris (2014)