Shobhana Narasimhan, 2022-03-20

Shobhana Narasimhan was born in 1963. She spent her early life in Mumbai, where she studied in the Convent of Jesus and Mary, St Xavier’s College and IIT, Bombay. She has a PhD in condensed matter physics from Harvard University. After completing her postdoctoral positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany, she joined the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru. She is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests are in computational nanoscience. She is also active in working for support groups for women in science.