International Institute for Population Sciences
Deemed University (An Autonomous Organization of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India)

• Associate Professor in Population Studies at Department of Migration and Urban Studies, IIPS, Mumbai, India (Since March 26, 2014)
• Assistant Professor in Geography at Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India  (from February 1, 2006 to March 25, 2014)        
• Assistant Professor in Geography at Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (from May 24, 2004 to January 31, 2006)

• Migration and Development, ‘Left behind’ families of migrants, Urbanization
•  Regional Studies (Middle Ganga Plain and Bhojpuri Speaking Region)
•  Application of RS & GIS in Population Studies 

• Recipient of Publication Grant from ICSSR for publication of PhD Thesis-2007
• Monetary support by Ford Foundation for conducting PhD fieldwork in state Bihar 2001
• Qualified "National Eligibility Test for Lectureship in Population Studies" by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in December- 1998.

• Books: 02
• Book review: 01
• Papers in journals: 10
• Chapters in edited volume: 05
• Paper in proceeding (online): 01

Ongoing Research Projects: 
· Coordinator in WHO project on ‘Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), Wave 2 and Wave 3, India (2015 onwards
·  Coordinator in IIPS funded Project on ‘Causes and Consequences of Out Migration from Middle Ganga Plain, India since February 2016

Research Supervision:

• Supervised Ph. D. dissertation (awarded): 03
• Supervision of Ph. D. Dissertation (ongoing): 03
• Guided M. Phil dissertation: 04
• Guided master dissertation: 18

• Netherlands, China, Morocco, France, Singapore, Thailand

Position Held

• Associate Professor in Population Studies at Department of Migration and Urban Studies, IIPS, Mumbai, India (Since March 26, 2014)
• Assistant Professor in Geography at Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India  (from February 1, 2006 to March 25, 2014)        
• Assistant Professor in Geography at Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (from May 24, 2004 to January 31, 2006)

Country Visited

• Netherlands, China, Morocco, France, Singapore, Thailand

Professional Membership

Consulting

Other Info

Work Experience:         
 15 years of Teaching and Research Experience  
   (10 years of UG courses and 12 years of PG and higher level courses)

Training conducted :

• Trained 35 faculties under Two-days Faculty Enrichment Workshop as a Resource Person on “Hands-on-Training in SPSS Software”, conducted by Nirmala College, Ranchi, during 25-26 March 2019.
• Conducted a skill development workshop on ‘Data for Urban Planning’ as a resource person at 39th Annual Conference of IASP held at BHU during 18-20 Sept 2018.

Seminars/Workshop organized or co-ordinated: 

• IIPSAA Workshop on “Ethics and Integrity in Social Science and Health  Research” held at IIPS, Mumbai, during 21-24 February 2018
• IIPS International Seminar on “Population, Health, and Development: Global and National Policy Perspectives” held at New Delhi during 15 – 17 February 2018
• IIPS National Seminar on ‘Population and Development: Issues and Challenges in 21st Century’ held at Nagpur, during 18-19 March 2016
• IIPSAA Workshop on Scientific Writing, held at IIPS, Mumbai, during 11-15 December 2015
• IIPS National Seminar on “Population, Health and Inclusive Development’’ was organized by IIPS & IIPHG, held at Ahmedabad, during 25- 27 February 2015.
• 12th International Asian Urbanization Conference on ‘’Urban Dynamics, Environment and Health: Challenges for the Twenty First Century’’, held at Department of Geography, BHU, during 28-30 December 2013.
• National Seminar on “Population, Development and Environment: Issues and Challenges”, held at the Department of Geography, BHU, during 18-20 February 2010. 
• National Seminar on “Urban Governance and Need for Information System” held at the Department of Geography, BHU, during 16-17 March 2009.

Courses/Training Programme Attended:

• Two-day a learning event on ‘Child Protection Data and Measurement’ by UNICEF, at  New Delhi on 25-26 February 2019.
• Six-day R-Workshop on “Introduction to R and Spatial Analysis with R Model Approaches, Maps, and Big Geodata” organized at IIPS, August 20-25, 2018.
• Two-day Hands-on-training on SPSS-25 at IIPS during 13-14 March 2018
• One-year part-time Certificate Course in Statistical Methods, 2011-12, Department of Statistics, BHU, Varanasi.
• Workshop on Discovering Statistics by MS-Excel and SPSS, May27-June 4 2013, CIMS, BHU, Varanasi.
• ISRO sponsored training course on “Application of Remote sensing in Cartography and Mapping” 2nd May 2005 to 26th June 2005 at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun.
• “1st Summer Programme on “Large Scale Survey Research: Theory and Practice” organized by International Institute for Population Sciences Mumbai, during June 2-20, 2003.
• UGC Refresher Course on Earth Sciences,  4-24 January 2011, Academic Staff College, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
• UGC Orientation Course, 02-29 December 2008, Academic Staff College, Punjab University, Chandigarh.

Current Administrative Responsibilities:

• Staff Welfare Committee IIPS (2017 onwards)
• Publication Cell and Short Term Training (2019)
• IIPSAA (IIPS Alumni Association)- General Secretary (2018)