Sunitha Shiva

 

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Sunitha Shiva is originally from India, where she graduated with a Masters in Chemistry. She worked as a project assistant in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore before heading to Germany to earn her Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart.

As a postdoc in the Welti lab, she performed research on multiple projects, including one supported by the National Science Foundation and the Terry Johnson Cancer Research Center. Her research activities focused on identification and quantification of lipids and other metabolites in plants and animals to characterize the relevant lipid metabolism. She successfully developed and implemented new mass-spectrometry based methods for lipid profiling.

She is currently lab manager of Michal Zolkiewski’s lab in the Department of Biochemistry at Kansas State University.