Ankita is a Postdoc at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a part of SEVEN, UvA's Climate Institute. Her research at UvA uses TIAM-ECN, an integrated assessment model, to assess hydrogen’s potential by analyzing its production, transport, storage, and consumption, while connecting with studies on public acceptance and risk perception.

Ankita's expertise includes using energy systems models to develop sustainable decarbonization pathways to inform climate action policy at the national level. She has experience modeling policy measures using energy systems optimization models to inform mitigation strategies. She has also developed methodologies to enhance insights from energy systems models by leveraging existing data.

Before joining the UvA, Ankita was a postdoctoral appointee at the Argonne National Lab within the Global Energy Solutions team. There, she used various national- and global-level TIMES models to inform evidence-based actions. She also collaborated on linking a global TIMES model to Argonne's power system model, ALEAF. 

Ankita holds a PhD in Energy Engineering from University College Cork,Ireland, where she was a part of the Energy Policy and Modelling Group. During her PhD, Ankita was a part of the 2023 YSSP cohort at IIASA. Her PhD thesis examines the depiction of energy service demand as a mitigation lever in energy systems models.