He received his PhD (Sociology) degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in May 2014. Prior to joining IIM-C, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Communications and New Media at the NUS. He was previously a University Grants Commission-Junior Research Fellow in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Indian Institute of Technology –Delhi (IIT-D). His research and teaching interests include Extractive Industries, Forced Migration, Social Movements, Sociology of Development, State-Society Relations, Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology etc.