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26 November<\/h5>\n\t\t

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Jahnavi Phalkey<\/h1>

Founding Director<\/h4>

Science Gallery Bengaluru<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Speaker Biography<\/h3>

Jahnavi Phalkey is a historian of science and filmmaker, and founding director, Science Gallery Bengaluru.<\/p>\n

Jahnavi Phalkey was appointed Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru in November 2018. Previously, Jahnavi held a tenured faculty position at King\u2019s College London. She started her academic career at the University of Heidelberg, following which she was based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine, France, and Imperial College London. Jahnavi was Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin). She was also external curator to the Science Museum London, and has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. <\/p>\n

Jahnavi is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India and has co-edited Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century. She is the producer-director of the documentary film Cyclotron. <\/p>\n

Jahnavi read civics and politics at the University of Bombay and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She holds a doctoral degree in history of science and technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Jahnavi was awarded the Infosys Prize in Humanities for her brilliant insights into the individual, institutional, and material histories of scientific research in modern India.<\/p>

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