He did his Bachelors in Physiology from Calcutta University in 2003, Masters in Biotechnology from Calcutta University in 2005 and completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of the parasite Leishmania in 2011 from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India. He moved to University of Aarhus, Denmark for postdoctoral studies and worked in the field of eukaryotic replication with yeast as a model organism. He returned to India in November 2012 and joined the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India as DBT Research Associate where his research was directed towards the identification of a novel DNA repair protein in Leishmania. He also worked as part-time lecturer and guest lecturer at Department of Microbiology, Asutosh College, Kolkata.