Sumati Surya
Ph.D. (1997, Syracuse), works at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, in the area of classical and quantum gravity. Email: ssurya@rri.res.in

Qudsia Tahseen
Ph.D. (1989, Aligarh), FASc, is a recipient of the INSA Young Scientist Medal. She is Reader, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University. Her areas of interest are nematode taxonomy, developmental biology and ecology. Email: qtahseen@hotmail.com

B K Thelma
Ph.D. (1982, Delhi), FASc, FNASc. She works on human genetics and medical genomics at the Department of Genetics, University of Delhi, Delhi. Email: thelmabk@yahoo.co.in

Vidita Vaidya
Ph.D. (1997, Yale), is an young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences and a Senior Overseas Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust. She is at the TIFR, Mumbai, and works in neuroscience and molecular psychiatry. Email: vvaidya@mailhost.tifr.res.in

Shikha Varma
Ph.D. (1990, Syracuse), is an experimental condensed matter physicist at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. Email: shikha@iopb.res.in

Usha Vijayraghavan
Ph.D. (1989, Caltech), FASc, FNA, is on the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, Bangalore. She has won the DBT-Bioscience award and International Senior Research Fellowship of The Wellcome Trust, UK. Her research group uses genetics and functional genomics to decipher how gene expression is controlled using plants and yeasts as experimental models.
Email: uvr@mcbl.iisc.ernet.in

Saraswathi Vishveshwara
Ph.D. (1974, New York), FASc. She is a Professor at the Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore and her areas of research include quantum chemistry, computational biology, bioinformatics and biomolecular structure networks. Email: sv@mbu.iisc.ernet.in

Shashi Wadhwa
M.D. (1974), Ph.D. (1987, AIIMS), FASc, FNASc. Recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Dr. H.K. Chatterjee Memorial Gold Medal, Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize. Her areas of interest are anatomy and developmental neuroscience. Email: shashiwadhwa@hotmail.com