Nadira started her research career during her undergraduate studies in Genetics at QMUL (graduating with a First), where she completed an epigenetics project investigating sterile inflammation in placental cells. She then spent time at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics on an internship classifying splice site variants, which shifted her interests toward dry lab work and data analysis. After a year working in clinical trials, she then decided to pursue graduate studies.

Nadira is now using large-scale biobank data to investigate sleep disorder and sleep trait phenotypes, which she uses to run genetic analyses on the genetic architecture of sleep. Her work also explores the relationship between sleep traits, disorders, and mental health phenotypes, using causal inference methods to determine the direction of these relationships.