Sikandar is a final-semester student of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree PANGEA (Palaeobiology, Applied paleontology, Geoconservation) (University de Lille, France; University of Athens, Greece) and is currently working on coccolithophores of Eastern Mediterranean. Prior to that, he received Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship to attend MSc. Hydrogeology program at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He writes on various topics in earth sciences on his Instagram @geotalkies.