Shivika pursued her post-doctoral research at the National Institute of Environmental Studies in Tsukuba, Japan, the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and University College Cork in Cork, Ireland before joining as a senior research fellow at Global Centre for Environment and Energy, Ahmedabad University. She received her PhD (2014) from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Her research focuses on the techno-economic and policy assessment relating to climate change.