Amitabh Joshi's lab at JNCASR works with theoretical (largely simulations) and mostly experimental work on multiple questions in evolutionary biology and population dynamics. Their experimental work involves long-term studies with lab populations of Drosophila. Amitabh is the founding Member of the Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists (ISEB).

TNC Vidya is interested in vertebrate behaviour and socioecology, while maintaining broader interests in the areas of behavioural ecology, conservation biology, phylogeography, and evolutionary biology. Her lab specializes in studying the socioecology of the Asian elephant in southern India.

Vijay Ramesh is the co-founder of ‘Project Dhvani’, an initiative that aims to monitor biodiversity using sounds. As an avian ecologist, his broad interests range from bioacoustics to historical ecology to citizen science. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Columbia University, where he is examining the impacts of climate change and landscape change on the birds of the Western Ghats, using a range of novel technologies and statistical tools. To learn more, please visit: https://evolecol.weebly.com/

Procheta Mallik graduated with Physics Honours, B.Sc. (University of New Hampshire, USA, 2005) and completed his Ph.D. in Astronomy (University of Glasgow, UK, 2009), followed by a year of post-doctoral research. Upon returning to India, Procheta pursued his passion in science education by doing astronomy popularisation activities for schools across Bangalore, before joining Innovation and Science Promotion Foundation (ISPF) at its inception in 2014. In 2017, he also co-founded the social enterprise, ThinkTac. Procheta is a Trustee of ISPF and the Principal Scientist at both organisations. He is an avid traveller, sports freak and classical musician.

Lakshmi Jois is an Engineering graduate in electronics and communications with an objective to help children understand concepts. She is a certified counsellor and a Life education teacher to help achieve her objective with a holistic approach. She has been associated with kids for the past 15 years conducting Robotics , Hands- on science, Clay modelling and Life education classes.

Smitha Vishveshwara is a professor of physics based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who maintains close ties to scientific, educational, and cultural establishments in Bengaluru, India. Her theoretical research explores the coldest states of matter in the universe, nanomaterials, strange quantum particles, black holes, proteins, and more. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society (2019-), a Simons Fellow (2012), and an inaugural Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor (2019). Over the past several years, she has been combining her passions for the arts and the sciences. She has developed an interdisciplinary project-based course, Where the Arts Meet Physics, in which students conceive, build and share their marvelous creations from the quantum to the cosmic. She has collaborated with theater-makers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, and more to create several works, including a performance-based adventure tale, Quantum Voyages, and a meditative visual-music-narrative piece, Quantum Rhapsodies.

Ramya Sethuram is currently a Project Scientist at India-TMT Centre at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru. After completing her PhD from IIA on dwarf galaxies, she did her postdoctoral research work at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Paris and at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai. Her research interests are star formation processes in dwarf galaxies, low surface brightness galaxies, stellar populations and star formation histories in low luminosity galaxies and has immense interest in astronomical instrumentation as well.

Dorje Angchuk is the Engineer-in-Charge at the Indian Astronomical Observatory and is among the key staff members involved in the commissioning and operation of the telescopes at the IAO. Apart from his professional contribution, he is an outstanding astrophotographer. His pictures have been featured in leading publications such as the New York Times and The New Yorker magazine.

Divya Panicker is a PhD student in the Department of Oceanography at University of Washington. Divya has been studying whales and dolphins in India since 2012 and has conducted projects off the Kerala and Lakshadweep coasts. Currently, her work focuses on understanding distributions of cetaceans off the Lakshadweep coast using passive acoustic monitoring, i.e using whale and dolphin sounds.

Sreerup Raychaudhuri is a theoretical physicist at TIFR who works on the physics of elementary particles and their interactions. He is a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta and worked as a postdoc at TIFR and CERN. He taught at IIT Kanpur for nearly nine years before joining the Faculty at TIFR. His research interests lie in interfacing theory with experiments, especially in the physics of electroweak interactions. He is also interested in science popularisation and the history of science.

H R Madhusudan has been working at the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru since 1995. He is involved in planning, teaching and coordinating all the non-formal educational programmes addressing students and teachers at various levels. He is also part of the team that produces the planetarium skytheatre programmes for the public. He likes to read, understand and disseminate ideas

Basudeb Dasgupta is a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He studies stars, the early universe, and particle physics. He obtained his Ph.D. from TIFR in 2009, and after working abroad for a few years, joined TIFR as a faculty member in 2014. He is a globally renowned physicist, and, among his several honors, was awarded the prestigious ICTP Prize in 2019.

Anand Narayanan obtained his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from The Pennsylvania State University. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Earth & Space Sciences at the Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, Trivandrum. His broad research interest is in understanding the physical properties of gas associated with galaxies and the intergalactic medium over cosmic time.

Shashi Thutupalli is a physicist/biologist spending his time between NCBS and ICTS in Bengaluru. His research aims for a broad understanding of the origins and organization of living systems. His research group combines experimental and theoretical techniques drawn from physics, engineering and biology. He is also interested in the study of active evolvable matter.

Rama Govindarajan is interested in solving fluid dynamical problems of different kinds. She did her BTech in IIT Delhi, PhD in IISc Bengaluru and postdoc in Caltech. She worked in the National Aerospace Labs and in the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research before joining TIFR. She won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering, and is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, India and the American Physical Society.

Sanjay Jain's current research interests are in theoretical biology and complex adaptive systems. He did his undergraduate studies at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and Masters at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi. Obtaining his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, he did post-doctoral work at the physics departments of Brown and Harvard Universities, working on string theory, quantum gravity, quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. He was a faculty member at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, where he started working on complex systems. Since 2002 he is Professor at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi. He is an External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute, a former Addie and Harold Broitman Member of the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Axel obtained his PhD at the Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen, Germany on anatomical studies on the olfactory system of honey bees. He then was part of the Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, headed by Prof. Bert Hoelldobler. At that time the Department was one of the world leaders in the study of social insects focusing on ants and honey bees where he performed behavioural experiments on pheromone communication and dance behaviour. Then Prof. Axel worked in the lab of Prof. Gene E. Robinson, University of Illinois where he performed studies on the molecular underpinnings on dance behaviour. Since 2012 he is Associate Professor at NCBS where the lab studies molecular mechanisms underlying dance behaviour and time-memory and started in recent years comparative studies on Asian honey bees.

Dipani Sutaria is an environmentalist and ecologist who studies aquatic systems and mega fauna such as whales, dolphins, sharks and rays in India. She is a Senior Research Fellow at JCU, Australia, a member of the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, the Society of Marine Mammalogy International Affairs committee, and IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Area Task Force. As an independent researcher she advises MSc and PhD students in India and abroad. Based in Ahmedabad, she also teaches ecology to students of architecture, design and planning at CEPT. Caring for her nursery of native flora and her large family of non-human creatures keeps her grounded.

Tirthankar Roy Choudhury is a theoretical astrophysicist working at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Pune. He did his PhD from IUCAA (Pune) and worked in postdoctoral positions at SISSA (Trieste) and IoA (Cambridge). He worked as a faculty at HRI (Allahabad) before moving to his present position. His research is focussed on cosmology, mainly the formation of the first stars in the Universe. Besides his research, Tirthankar enjoys teaching physics and astrophysics subjects. He is also involved in Indian participation in building the largest radio telescope in the world, the Square Kilometre Array.