Professional Experience

• Adjunct Professor (2012 - ) - at Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.
• Head of the Metabolomics Unit (2010 -) at Technology Centre, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, Helsinki, Finland
• Research Scientist & Project Manager (2007 - 2009) at Metabolomics Team, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
• Post-doctoral Fellow (2006 - 2007) at Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics group, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
• Research Associate (2002 - 2003) at Proteomics group, Bioinformatics division, Zenovus Biotech Limited, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad, India
   
   

  Professional Activities

  • Reviewer in international journals in the field of metabolomics
  • Visiting Scientist in 2009 at IMS, Universty of Cambridge, UK.
  • Consortium partner in Finnish National network for proteomics and metabolomics
  • Member in The Biobio society, Helsinki, Finland
     

    Fellowships

    • Post-doctoral Fellowships (2006-2009) from EU FP6 and FP7 and Human Frontier Science organization (HFSO) through VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
    • Doctoral Fellowship (2003-2005) from Centre for Bioinformatics under Deutsche  Forschungs gemeinschaft (DFG) programme
    • Visiting Student Research Program Fellowship (2000) from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India during summer internship
    • Merit Fellowships (1999-2002) from Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India during both Master’s degree and Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Bioinformatics.
       

    Awards and Grants

    • Award for Merit - 2008 for excellent collaborative work in establishment of Systems Biology platform at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
    • Award for Merit - 2007 for exceptionally well performed project work at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland.
    • Young post-doctoral scientist grant to attend first focused “FutureSysBio” workshop, Nov 19^th - 21^st, 2008 Gothenburg, Sweden.
    • Young scientist bursary scheme award to attend “Genomes to systems” conference, Mar 22^nd -24^th, 2006 Manchester, UK.
    • Graduate Student grants to attend 5^th European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering Science  (ESBES), Sep 8^th -11^th, 2004 Stuttgart, Germany.