I completed Ph.D. (2015) from the University of Oslo (UiO, Norway) while working at University Center in Svalbard (UNIS, Norway). During Ph.D. I was investigating High-Arctic fungal ecology through space and time using high-throughput sequencing and worked with supervisor Dr. Pernille B. Eidesen (UNIS), co-supervisors Prof. Håvard Kauserud and Prof. Rune Halvorsen. 

               I seek to understand how human-accelerated environmental change affects key functions of ecosystems. My research quantifies above- and below-ground interactions of different biomes with their abiotic and biotic environment in the face of global climate change. Of particular interest is how belowground carbon (C) allocation influences nutrient transformations, and the degree to which such processes feedback to global change through their effects on ecosystem carbon storage and nutrient retention. Most belowground processes are poorly understood owing to the complexity of plant-soil-microbial interactions and challenges of quantifying spatially and temporally heterogeneous processes. I have been integrating field observations with novel multi-omics techniques to address questions that intersect plant and soil microbial ecology, with a major focus on mycorrhizal symbiosis, in an ecosystem context.

          Further, I am developing more interest in studying how extensively use of antibiotics and chemicals such as pesticides, fungicide is linked with the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in different environmental settings including wastewater, soil and oasis agroecosystem.