Shivali has done her bachelor’s and master’s in India. As a part of her Bachelor’s project, she worked on the DNA Binding and DNA cleavage properties of transition metal complexes in the lab of Dr. Anupa Kumbhar. She did her Master’s by research from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research at Prof. Mahendra Sonawane’s lab, where she worked on the interplay between polarity and adhesion in the zebrafish epidermis. She has now joined the Vastenhouw Group at the CIG for her PhD!