Shubha Tole obtained her BSc degree in Life Sciences and Biochemistry from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and her MSc and PhD degrees from Caltech, USA. She worked at the University of Chicago as a post-doctoral fellow before joining TIFR, Mumbai, as a faculty member in 1999. Tole has been awarded the Infosys Prize for Life Sciences (2014), the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2010) and the Research Award for Innovation in Neurosciences (RAIN) by the Society for Neuroscience (2008), which is given for innovative work regardless of age or nationality. She received the National Woman Bioscientist award of the Department of Biotechnology (2008), the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (2005) and a Wellcome Trust Senior International Fellowship (1999), when she started her laboratory in Mumbai. She is a fellow of all the three national scientific academies of India.
Tole has offered workshops on "Ethics in Science" at national and international fora. She also actively engages in public outreach via workshops in schools and colleges, and encourages her students to do the same. Shubha Tole also writes blogs to provide guidance and mentorship to younger colleagues. Blogs: https://indiabioscience.org/authors/ShubhaTole

Rajesh did his PhD degree in Physics at the TIFR, Mumbai, after completing a masters degree from IIT, Kanpur. He went on to work at Oxford University, UK, and Brandeis University, USA, before returning to become a faculty member at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. In his research, he studies granular powders, polymers, the structure of bones and how differently shaped objects pack together.

Guru Kumaraswamy received a BTech from IIT, Bombay, followed by an MS and PhD from Caltech, USA, all in Chemical Engineering. He was a Volkswagen postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Germany before joining NCL-CSIR, Pune, in 2001, where he is currently a Principal Scientist. Guru works on soft materials and uses a wide variety of experiments to understand the structure and properties of this fascinating class of materials.

Vijay Kodiyalam received his BTech degree in Computer Science from IIT, Madras, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mathematics from Purdue University, USA. He worked at the University of Kansas for two years before moving to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1995. He does research in areas of mathematics that have a bearing on our understanding of knots and braids. He has been awarded the B. M. Birla Science Prize and is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences, India.