I am a demographer by training and works in the field of population dynamics, public health, and regional developmental issues in developing countries in general and India in particular. Before joining as a New Generation Network Scholar at Australia India Institute (AII) and UWA Public Policy Institute in the University of Western Australia, I have been working as an Assistant Professor in Population Studies at the Centre for the Studies in Regional Development (CSRD), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. I was a visiting faculty at the University of Gottingen, Germany from May to June 2018. I have more than eight years of experience in teaching and M.Phil & Ph.D. supervision in the field of demography, public health, and development studies. I have guided five M.Phil and four Ph.D. theses. Currently guiding nine Ph.D. students at the JNU. I have been involved in several major projects funded by both national and international organizations. My current research interests include population dynamics and its implications for development, public health and nutritional inequalities and its social determinants, demographics of gender. I have published more than 75 research articles in highly reputed peer-reviewed international and national journals, three reports, and co-authored a book.