My academic interests are quite diverse unlike the taxon I work on, seagrass. Having explored several species and systems on land, I dove into the marine landscape during my Master’s degree with questions pertaining to why a species occurs where it does. This resulted in a dissertation on seagrass assemblage in the intertidal meadows of the Andaman archipelago where I explored how seagrass species navigate extreme environmental conditions as the tide retreats. The simplicity seagrasses offer in understanding dynamic ecological processes intrigues me and makes it a good model system to work in. The processes that drive community patterns and coexistence in tropical multi-species seagrass meadows and how these are overwhelmingly shaped by humans and impacted by climate change form the focus of my current research work with the Oceans and Coasts Programme at NCF.