Assistant Professor
Department of Anthroplogy
University of Delhi
New Delhi, India
2020: Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship from USIEF 2020-21 at the University of California, Davis.
2016: Summer Research Fellowship by Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore, to conduct research at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow.
2016: Junior Research Fellowship by Sports Authority of India (Project – Comprehensive Scientific Assessment of Indian players ).
2014: Create to Inspire fellowship by WWF India and Microsoft (Project – Urban Biodiversity).
Fellowships
Research Grants
2025: The Habitats Trust SEED Grant (INR 3,00,000) for conducting a study on the impact of poaching on gibbon behaviour.
2024: SERB Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (INR 29,80,800) for two years at IISc, Bangalore, for conducting independent research on behavioural plasticity of western hoolock gibbons.
2019: Doctoral Research Grant (US$ 14,107) for conducting research entitled-Exploring tool-use by long-tailed macaques in the Nicobar Islands, India and associated factors.
2018: International Primatological Society Research Grant (US$ 1,500) for conducting research entitled- Tool-aided foraging behaviour by Macaca fascicularis umbrosus of Nicobar island.
Travel Grants
2025: ASAB Conference Attendance Grant (£400), Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB), 2025 Awarded to attend and present at the Behaviour 2025 Conference, Kolkata, India.
2025: Recipient, Travel Support, 10th World Archaeological Congress in Darwin, Australia 22-28 June 2025.
2024: AABA International Travel Award (American Association of Biological Anthropologists Intern Travel Award). Selected for the International Travel Support Program to attend the 94th AABA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (March 12-15, 2025).
2024: Professional Travel Grant (Half-way air fare) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to present a poster at an Eastern Africa Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology (EAAPP) conference in Ethiopia from 28th July to 2nd August. (Declined)
2024: Ekalavya-Ignite Travel Grant (INR 1,00,000) offered by the Ignite Life Science Foundation to present a poster at a conference organized by the Eastern Africa Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology (EAAPP) in Ethiopia from 28th July to 2nd August.
2022: Awarded the ASP Ruppenthal Student Travel Awards to attend 2022 meeting in Denver and present a talk.
2022: European Union (KREAS) awarded full travel grant to organize a session and presenter in World Archaeology Congress (WAC -9) Prague 3rd to 8th July 2022.
2019: Student travel grant (€ 1000) by International Society for Advancement of Kinanthropometry Student travel grant for presenting a paper at the ISAK International Conference in Alicante 2nd -10th July 2020 (Postponed to 2022).
2019: Awarded the student travel grant (GB£1000) by British Ecological Society (BES) to present work at the BES Annual conference in Dublin, Ireland from 10th to 13th December 2019. (Declined)
2019: Travel grant (AU$1150) by the Asia Pacific Conference on Human Evolution (APCHE) committee to present work at the APCHE conference in Brisbane, Australia from 25th to 27th June 2019.
2018: Awarded the student travel grant by Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) to present work at the 21st IPPA international conference in Hue, Vietnam, from 23rd to 28th September 2018.
2018: SERB-DST International Travel Support for presenting a paper at the International Primatological
Society 27th Congress 2018, Nairobi from 19th to 27th August 2018.
2018: International Society for Advancement of Kinanthropometry Student travel grant (NZ$ 2,000) for
presenting a paper at the ISAK International Conference in Chile 29th June-2nd July 2018. (Declined)
2017: Students Travel Grant by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to present a paper at a conference in London organized by Primate Society of Great Britain 27th to 29th November 2017.