Spatika is an incoming Gates-Cambridge PhD Scholar and is currently a Felix Scholar, pursuing an MSc in neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in systems and affective neuroscience, working on preclinical models of research and neuroethology. She graduated with a BS-MS degree in biology from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, in 2022, and has active interests in science writing, literature, and poetry.