Hansika is a Research Author at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai. She holds a Ph.D. from IIT, Bombay in the area of creativity, specifically negative creativity (aka how people get good ideas to do bad things). She is the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2019-2020), and is an Affiliate at the University of Connecticut. She is a published author, practicing psychologist, and her research interests lie in individual differences, creativity, and behavioural economics.