Pooja completed her Bachelor of Technology degree in Bioinformatics from D.Y. Patil University, India in 2016 and her Master of Science degree in Bioinformatics from The University of Melbourne in 2018.
Pooja previously worked as a Master’s research student at the Walter and Eliza Hall institute of medical research, where she was working on identifying evolutionary characteristics of milk transcriptomics. She has experience working with UNIX command line, Perl, Python and R.