I study how wildlife responds to human modified landscapes, with a focus on community ecology, animal movement, and conservation. My research journey has taken me from butterflies and primates to bats. My interest in bats developed gradually, shaped by a growing curiosity about how much we knew about their diversity, ecology, and conservation needs in a changing world. My PhD gave me the opportunity to investigate these questions through field research.

My work in Bangladesh (South Asia) explores how human driven changes within protected forests and surrounding landscapes affect bat communities, and how individual bats move through and select habitats in these mosaics. I am now extending this research to tropical Africa, combining bat movement ecology with disease surveillance. Across these projects, I am driven by curiosity about how wildlife lives alongside people and a commitment to using that understanding to support conservation.

I also mentor undergraduate and graduate researchers, helping them develop independent projects, communicate their work, and pursue academic opportunities. Building research capacity in Bangladesh is a particular focus of this commitment.

I earned my BSc in Zoology and MSc in Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation from Jagannath University, Bangladesh, followed by a PhD in Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I also serve as a student representative for the Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet). Explore my academic work on Google Scholar and my life beyond research on Facebook.