- 2023 – ongoing: Stable Isotope Research Assistant, British Geological Survey
- 2019 – 2023: Geochronology Support Scientist, British Geological Survey
- 2015 – 2019: PhD, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
- 2012 – 2015: MSc, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University
- 2009 – 2012: BSc, Earth and Space Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen
Research interests
- Stable isotope geochemistry
- Strontium isotope geochemistry
- Palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental change
- Palaeoceanography and marine geology
ORCID: 0000-0001-6479-0054
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&user=BQPPT0kAAAAJ
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diksha-Bista
- Application of strontium isotopic ratio as a proxy for past changes in hydrological system in non-marine basins
- Extraction of elements from chemical matrix using ion exchange chromatography
- High precision analysis of strontium, uranium and lead isotopes using Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry
- High precision analysis of light stable isotopes by isotope ratio mass spectrometry
- Carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur isotopes in archaeological samples
- Oxygen and carbon isotopes in water samples
- Working within clean room/laboratories
- Numerical box modelling