Himanshu did his engineering studies and PhD in India. During his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, he focused on investigating ribosome biogenesis in prokaryotes using biochemical and transcriptomic methods. During this time, he was funded by the National doctoral fellowship and a Senior research fellowship. Next, he procured the prestigious MSCA postdoctoral fellowship to pursue learning CryoEM methods to investigate parasite biology, followed by his appointment as a Staff scientist at Umeå University. In 2025, Himanshu joined NOVA-FCT as a Principal Investigator and established his lab to focus on investigating infection-causing prokaryotes and eukaryotic parasites.