Vikram received his BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford in 2014. He then moved to New York City to do a PhD in social evolution and behavior with Daniel Kronauer at The Rockefeller University. In his PhD, Vikram studied the origin and elaboration of colony life in ants. In the Srivastava lab, Vikram hopes to establish the three-banded panther worm as a model for behavioral neuroscience, and to study the evolution of complex nervous systems.