I am a senior postdoctoral researcher at the College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University. My work focuses on neuroinflammation, blood–brain barrier integrity, and purinergic P2X7 receptor signaling, with a particular interest in how environmental toxicants — including microplastics and organophosphate flame retardants — disrupt these systems in a sex-dependent manner. I earned my PhD at the JB Tropical Disease Research Centre, MGIMS Sevagram, and completed postdoctoral training at Temple University's Lewis Katz School of Medicine, where I studied alcohol- and e-cigarette-induced neuroimmune injury. Beyond the bench, I am the founder of Versatile Scientist, a bilingual (Marathi/English) science outreach platform that has grown to reach more than 500,000 followers, bringing research literacy and higher-education guidance to students in rural Maharashtra — including students from my own village of Jalkot. My mission is to advance the mechanistic understanding of neuroinflammatory disease while making science accessible to the students I once was.