She held the post of Assistant Professor in the  Department of Zoology, Ravenshaw University. She has 20 years of teaching and more than 15 years of research experience in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience. She has completed her Ph.D. in 2000 from Sambalpur University. She worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Stress Signal Research Center (HSS), Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Kansai Center, Japan on Stress and Neuro-Developmental Disorders.  She worked in the Central University of Hyderabad on Stem cell therapy in the Department of Animal Science. Later she moved to the Neurobiology Laboratory at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, as a Women Scientist (DST, WOS “A”) Fellow and worked on “Cellular and Molecular Mechanism of Learning and Memory”. She is a life member of Indian Academy of Neuroscience (IAN), Society for Neurochemistry, India (SNCI) and Odisha Bigyan Academy (OBA).

Her current research interest mainly focuses on gut microbiota and their interaction with brain, resulting changes in central nervous system function and cognitive behavior.