Meet The Team
Founder & Director
Shivam Kumar Singh
PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Candidate at International Institute for
Astronautical Sciences (IIAS), USA.
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2 provisional discoveries of asteroids
designated as 2020 RM98 and 2020 SS68.
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4+ years of teaching experience in Space
Systems Engineering, Avionics, IoT and
Embedded Systems.
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PADI Certified Open Water Diver.
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40+ talks delivered as a guest speaker.
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Former Judge at Technical Board IIT Guwahati, NASA Space Apps Pune Lead, Hack the mountains etc.
Director of Space Technology
Dr. Shreya Santra
Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan.
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Received Space Generation Leadership Award
by SGAC, an organisation founded to promote
United Nations Program on Space Applications.
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Former Visiting Researcher at German
Aerospace Center (DLR), Physical Research
Laboratory (PRL) and Indian Institute of
Astrophysics (IIA).
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Holds a patent for her robot design of an autonomous ultraviolet mobile sanitizing robot (IPO 383226).
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​Her expertise also extends to micro rovers and
small satellites for planetary exploration.
Cancer Biologist & Zoologist
Dr. Krishnendu Ghosh
PhD in Neuro oncoimmunology of
human gilal tumors (ICMR Research
Fellow).​
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Winner of Young Scientist Award 2021
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Winner of Edward Kennedy Memorial Award 2019
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Junior Scientist of the year Award 2018.
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Reviewer Board Member at "Journal of Research in Microbiology & Immunology", "Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Science" and "Indian Journal of Cancer Education & Research".
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Life Member at "Indian Academy of Neurosciences", "Indian Science Congress Association", "Indian Immunology Society" and "The Zoological Society Kolkata".
Biochemist
Shraman Kumar Bohra
Area of expertise: Microfuidic systems, Animal
Experimentation, Headache biology,
Drosophila culturing and handling,
mitochondrial biology, Bioinformatics,
Biochemical and enzyme assays,
nanoformulations.
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Awarded with ‘Sri. Mummadi Krishnaraj
Wadiyar Gold Medal’ 2021
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Awarded with ‘Sri Ramanuja Iyenagar
Gold Medal’ 2021
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Grant awarded by US Department of
State for “From STEM to STE(A)M” project.
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Awarded with 'Annapoorna Kamath Memorial Gold Medal' 2021.
Microbiologist
Yamini Tripathi
Area of expertise: Infection Biology,
Mycobacterial Research, Nanoparticle
Synthesis, Antibiotic Susceptibility
Assays and Virology.
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Member of Microbiology Society, UK.
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Trained in BSL3 on Pathogenic Mtb
strain.
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Public Speaker in the field of
Astrobiology.
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3+ years of teaching experience in the field of Microbiology.
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