Curriculum Vitae
Devika's birthplace is Pune, India, where she also completed her bachelors in Microbiology at Fergusson College, Pune University (2012). Her masters was also in Microbiology in the MS University of Baroda, Gujarat, India (2014). During her masters she developed interest in evolutionary biology and hence she joined an evolutionary biology lab in the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India. She worked at the Institute as a project fellow for a year (2015). She worked with Prof. Dr. Diethard Tautz at the MPI in Plön as an IMPRS student. Her project dealt with de-novo gene evolution in prokaryotic systems (mostly bacteria).
Devika defended her thesis in September 2020 and continued her work in the Tautz lab until the end of 2021.