Function and Responsibilities:

PhD student since Oct. 2020

Research Interests:

X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Mineralogy and Iron Geochemistry

Inorganic and solid state chemistry

Education:

2016 - 2019 MSc. Chemistry at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Thesis -  Hydroxyl-substituted corannulenes: synthesis and properties, Thesis supervisor Prof. Dr. Dieter Lentz, Berlin, Germany

2013 - 2016 BSc. Chemistry (Hons.) University of Delhi, St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India

Awards:

2022 - Successful synchrotron beamtime proposal for performing in situ SAXS/WAXS at Diamond Light Source, UK on I22 beamline. Proposal title: Non-classical formation of vivianite and its role in Fe/P cycling in Neoproterozoic oceans

2022 - DMG (German Mineralogical Society) travel grant

2022 - European Association of Geochemistry Student Sponsorship for GeoMinKöln 2022, Cologne Germany. Conference of the German Mineralogical Society (DMG)

2015 - 2016 Meritorious scholarship from the faculty of Science, University of Delhi, India