In the ever-evolving landscape of biological sciences, the utilisation of genomic approaches has emerged as a transformative force in unravelling the complexities of animal diversity. By taking advantage of modern genomic approaches (NGS, WGS) and computational tools, I try to address several questions within the vertebrate and invertebrate taxa. My Ph.D. study focused on the identification and resolving of cryptic diversity and species complexes of the pest and tospovirus-transmitting insect group (Order: Thysanoptera) through an integrated approach of classical taxonomy and DNA barcoding.

As a postdoc, I carried out my research on vertebrate and invertebrate taxa from different geographic locations with multi-gene and computational approaches for better understanding of their genetic diversity, phylogenetic relationships, population genetics, and evolutionary linkages.