I am a geophysicist broadly interested in problems of physics and mechanics of earthquakes. The inherent multi-disciplinary nature of earthquake physics has led me to gather research experience on a very broad range of topics – fault mechanics, experimental and theoretical rock/fracture mechanics, hydrology, seismology, geo-statistics and inversion of geophysical data.

My doctoral work at Princeton, with Allan Rubin, focused on the constitutive relations for rock friction; I combined theoretical and numerical analysis with data from rock friction experiments to clearly understand the relative successes and failures of various versions of laboratory-derived constitutive relations for fault friction.

After Princeton, I worked as a Post Doctoral Scholar with Robert Viesca at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University from December 2016 to October 2017. We worked on using observations of fluid induced aseismic slip to infer the hydro-mechanical properties of fluid-activated faults.

Between November 2018 – January 2021, I was an Assistant Professor at the School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar. Since January 2021, I have been an Assistant Professor at the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar.