Lab Hopping: A Journey to Find India''s Women in Science

About Aashima DograNandita Jayaraj

Aashima Dogra is a freelance science writer and editor. Her time in a Pune lab pushed her to embrace her love for science stories and pursue a masters degree in Science Communication in 2009. Since then she has enjoyed researching and creating engaging science media published on various platforms for Indian as well as international audiences. She has been editor of Brainwave magazine which is where she met Nandita. Aashima has people she calls home in Austria and India. Since completing her masters' in bioinformatics and a diploma in journalism in 2012 Nandita Jayaraj has been writing editing and creating various kinds of science media. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Hindu Scroll.in TheWire.in and Mongabay India. She is also an author of several children's books such as Anna's Extraordinary Adventures with Weather and 31 Fantastic Adventures in Science which she co-authored with Aashima Dogra. Nandita loves to travel and spends most of her time with friends and family in Kerala and Karnataka.