Archana is an engineer and marine biologist. She primarily works on the interface between environmental engineering and coastal marine microbiology. Intrigued by aquatic microbes that drive several vital biogeochemical processes in the land and ocean, she’s currently researches microbes in wastewater while developing and applying bioinformatics techniques to understand the mixed microbial communities involved in nutrient removal and cycling.
In 2019, she won the National Geographic Explorer Award to support her work in mapping coastal biodiversity in the scientifically understudied Andaman & Nicobar Islands. She obtained her PhD in Ecology & Biodiversity from the University of Hong Kong and her B.Eng from the National University of Singapore.
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