Oorja Tapan is currently a Doctoral Fellow in Diplomacy and Disarmament at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies (SIS) in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been awarded the Network for Advanced Study of China (NASC) Fellowship at the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru, India for 2024-25. Her interest areas are Indo-Pacific affairs, QUAD, Sino-India relations, South Asia, U.S.-China rivalry, and the Theory of International Relations. She has previously served as an Assistant Professor at the School of Internal Security, Defense, and Strategic Studies (SISDSS), Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar- an Institute of National Importance under the Ministry of Home Affairs. She is a member of the Indo-Pacific Circle (IPC) at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research (CSDR), New Delhi as well as a Young Leader at the Pacific Forum, Honolulu, United States.