People of smc

Shalini Sharma is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Pune, where she also led the Science Media Centre (2022-2025). She has a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London as a Felix Fellow. She focuses on cities, culture, and environment relations. Her current research/teaching focuses on two key areas: a) Disaster studies and environmental justice b) Media studies and Science Communication.

Harinath Chakrapani completed his undergraduate and post-graduate studies in Chemistry from Loyola College (1994-97) and Indian Institute of Technology Madras (1997-99), respectively. In 1999, he moved to Duke University, USA to pursue his doctoral studies, which he completed in 2005. His post-doctoral research work was carried out at Wake Forest University and the National Cancer Institute. He joined IISER Pune in July 2009 and is currently Professor.

Arnab Mukherjee did his BSc from Jadavpur university, Kolkata in 1998. He then joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as an integrated PhD student in chemical sciences. He completed his PhD from S. S. C. U. department of IISc Bangalore in 2005 under the supervision of Professor Biman Bagchi. Dr. Mukherjee then went for his postdoctoral research in Ecole Normale Superierure, Paris, France from 2005 to 2007 and then to University of Colorado, Boulder from 2007 to 2009. He joined IISER Pune as an assistant professor in November, 2009. He became associate professor in 2015 and full professor in 2021.