Dr. Jyoti Sharma (Ph.D) is a Professor at Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi. As a founder faculty in the first Meta University based program, M.Sc (Mathematics Education) in the country, she has developed many innovative practices for mathematics teaching and ICT based learning. She is an active researcher and engaged in many governments funded research projects. Her main research interests are Mathematics Curriculum, Pedagogy & Evaluation and Education of Gifted Students. As a teacher educator, she is actively involved in non-conventional methods of math teaching and assessment. As a mathematics pedagogue, she has worked closely with pre-service math teachers, students, in- service math teachers and math educators. The priority of her work is to eliminate math fear among students and then develop within them a sense of appreciation for mathematics. She has been involved in several academic initiatives under different school boards, CBSE and NCERT. She is presently working on children with dyscalculia and on neuro-cognitive factors responsible for dyscalculia. She was the principal investigator of the flagship project on gifted education. She has developed several indigenous tools to identify gifted students in Indian classrooms. She is among the early educators who advocated the idea of identification as a continuation process and mentoring as an integral part of identification. She is strongly promoting reconceptualization of inclusive education by focusing on gifted students under same mandate.

She has done her Masters in Zoology, B.Ed, M.Ed and Ph.D (Science Education) from University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. She has a UGC-NET(JRF)in Education and has teaching and research experience of more than 5 years at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has taught papers like Pedagogy of Science, Conceptual foundations of education and Environment education at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi for 2 consecutive years. She was associated with CIET (Central Institute of Educational Technology), NCERT, New Delhi for more than 2 years as an Academic Consultant and has contributed in the development of online course modules for Biology and Teacher Education, maintenance of online learning repositories like NROER (https://nroer.gov.in/welcome) and DIKSHA (https://diksha.gov.in/) and organizing National level academic events and quizzes. She has been a member of National School Health Programme (under Ayushman Bharat Initiative of Govt. of India) and has conducted online training workshops and taken sessions on Health, Hygiene, Cyber Safety and promotion of safe use of internet, gadgets and media as a NRG (National Resource Group) member of NCERT. She has done her doctoral study in the area of Pedagogical content knowledge of Science teachers, wherein she developed a framework for integrating ethics in science education. Her recent publication with Springer Nature is titled as, Ethics in Science-Pedagogic issues and concerns (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789813290082).

Dr. Jagjit Kaur has completed her Ph.D at Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, working on Technology, self and communication in education. She read for the M.Phil in education from Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies and her dissertation was on Globalization and Early Childhood Education. It emphasized upon the ways in which the neo-liberal agendas, tied with the globalization have created a new market for private preschools, thereby diminishing the already tattered Government preschool systems. Her primary research interests are education, curriculum, self and pedagogy in the present times characterized by liberalization, globalization and privatization. She has completed Bachelors in Elementary Education from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and M.A. in sociology at School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her writings have been published in reputed journals such as Indian Journal of Educational Technology, National Council of Education, Research and Training, India among many others. Her active involvement in cultural programs involving voices of the marginalized in music, in theatre depicts her grit for equal opportunities. She has worked as an education specialist for Flow India, curriculum developer for IL&FS Education and Technology Ltd., Inspire Education on a freelance basis.

Dr. Gitanjali Yadav is a senior scientist at NIPGR and a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She is an expert in Genomics and machine learning, with applications in food security and ecosystem conservation. She is serving as a member of various national and international committees involved in research, policy and outreach. These include membership of NASI, Advisory Board of Hyderabad City Cluster (RICH-HCC), Executive Council of Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Trusteeship of St. Edmund's College (University of Cambridge), and National Core Committee of INYAS. Dr. Yadav promotes science as a way of life to students, and is an advocate/mentor for Women in Science. During the Coronavirus Pandemic, she has been conducting a series of free online training programs in Data Science and Complex Networks, under the name "Protocols From Home", in order to help students pick up vital skills in Computational Biology and make the best use of their time under global lockdown. In recognition of her outstanding work and outreach, Dr. Yadav has been conferred several awards, including SASTRA Obaid Siddiqi National Science Day Award 2021, SERB Women's Excellence Award, INSA Medal, NASI Scopus Young Scientist Medal, Yusuf Hamied Award (Cambridge University) and Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) by the DBT.

Dr. Adita Joshi (Ph.D) is the Founder and Director, Sansriti Foundation, New Delhi. Her foundation works in the area of capacity building and scientific skill development in science education, communication and outreach. She has worked with K-12 Schools and Undergraduate colleges to conduct training programs for teachers and students in adopting inquiry- based pedagogy in classrooms. Under her leadership, Sansriti foundation has facilitated training of more than 230 teachers from schools and colleges, about 2000 students/research professionals in areas of Pedagogy of Inquiry, zebrafish animal models system, experimental biology, research methodology, technical and scientific writing, careers in science and science communication. Her foundation has worked with research and academic institutions, Not-for-profit organisations, multi-national corporates and K-12 schools. Dr. Joshi is a Mentor for ‘Women in STEM ‘, with UNDP Ajerbaijan, Baku chapter and a ‘Mentor of Change’ at Atal Tinkering laboratory’ under Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), Niti Aayog. She is a certified ‘InSciEd Out Teacher Trainer’ and has received training and certification in Curriculum design, Pedagogy of Inquiry, Prescription education and Dialogue from InSciEd Out Foundation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA (www.insciedout.org). She is a recipient of the 'Teach for India' fellowship.Adita Joshi runs a collaboration with Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi under an MoU with Sansriti Foundation and has set up a Zebrafish research lab and teaching centre for organising student internships, workshops and faculty development programs. She is a Scientific consultant at CSIR-IGIB and has facilitated training and CME programs for Ayurveda Faculty, Ayurveda Professionals (Nationwide capacity building in Ayurgenomics and Prakriti Parikshan Methods in collaboration with Ministry of AYUSH).

Dr. Mitali Mukerji has recently joined IIT Jodhpur as a Professor of Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering. She was formerly a Chief Scientist at the CSIR- Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology and was involved in setting up key genomics initiatives in the area or Rare genetic disorders, population genomics, functional genomics of repetitive sequences and Ayurgenomics. She has a PhD in molecular genetics from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (1997). Her research is in the broad area of understanding human genome structure and variation for its application in the discovery of biomarkers for predicting susceptibility to diseases, understanding human phenotypes and environmental adaptations and mapping mutational histories. She had been the convenor of the Indian Genome Variation Consortium project which provided the first comprehensive genetic landscape of the Indian populations. She has been involved in co-developing a new area of research “Ayurgenomics” which aims to integrate Ayurveda with modern medicine through genomics and was the program director of CSIR’s Ayurgenomics Unit TRISUTRA. The unit at present houses the Centre of Excellence on Applied developments in Ayurveda, Prakriti and Genomics supported by the m/o AYUSH. Her group has provided the first evidence for molecular correlates of Prakriti that lead identification of a predictive biomarker for high altitude adaptation. She has been recipient of a number of national awards, the CSIR Young Scientist’s Award (2001), DBT young woman scientist award (2008) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award (2010), Vasvik Award (2016) and is a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences. She is also the board member of International Consortium on Human Phenomics.