[1] She currently serves as vice-chancellor of Siddharth University from July 2024 for a term of three years and becomes the first woman to hold the post.
She is known for her role in the area of Environmental Biotechnology, Health and water Resource Management.
She started as a Zoology student in the women's college at BHU named Mahila Mahavidyalaya (MMV).
[1] Following stints in Japan, Geneva and North Eastern Hill University in Shillong, she found herself coming back as a teacher at BHU.
[1] A major area of work also include the development of biosensors using immobilized plant enzymes (Biotechnology and Bio process Engineering, 13, 632–638, 2008) and studies pertaining to inhibitors of HIV protease (In Silico Biology, 8–033, 2008), HIV integrase (Archives of Virology 2014) and N. meningitides vaccine constructs (Indian Journal of Biotechnology, 2010) in silico using bioinformatics tools.