Yazhinee is a master’s student under practicum exchange program at UNSW in collaboration with IISER Mohali, India. She is very passionate about conducting experiments on origins of life, and currently she is doing her thesis on non-enzymatic replication of RNA with activated nucleotides which spans both Biology and Pre-biotic Chemistry. Amidst research and thesis works, she loves watching spiders, and learning Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin.