Sherly S

The Wills Education, Delhi (remote)

• Interviewed prospective students and working professionals about their career goals, constraints and learning needs, then matched them to the programmes that fitted.
• Carried recurring requirements, objections and queries back to internal teams, where they fed into how programmes were positioned and pitched.

Agharkar Research Institute, Pune

• Ran the diatom analysis for a paleoenvironment reconstruction at the Keeladi excavation, a joint study with the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department.
• Processed, mounted and taxonomically identified over a thousand taxa, then inferred past environmental conditions from the community structure they formed.

Botanical Survey of India, Pune

• Digitised hundreds of thousands of herbarium records, turning a physical archive into something that could be preserved and analysed computationally.

Agharkar Research Institute, Pune

• Studied moss-inhabiting diatom communities of the Eastern Himalayas in Sikkim, resolving 111 taxa across 39 genera, which became the species description below.