She studies how nanoparticles of various metals can be used as effective and recyclable catalysts. She works more specifically with ionic liquid stabilized nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles and crystalline cellulose supported nanoparticles in the context of catalytic reactions of hydrogenation, coupling and oxidation. She obtained her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Le Floch in 2005 from the Ecole Polytechnique, France. She was a post doctoral fellow at Yale University in 2006 in the group of Prof. Robert H. Crabtree. She is one of the ten 2011 Science Communication Fellows, awarded by Environmental Health News and Advancing Green Chemistry for the promotion of science and green chemistry.