Kanika Khanna

"The so-called pandemic year has highlighted the need for evidence-based research and placed scientists at the forefront of discoveries and technological solutions to challenging societal problems. This is an exciting time to be a scientist and it has become even more relevant to engage and bring diverse teams on board to tackle the seen and the unseen problems of the world through a scientific lens.

Science is for anyone who is curious about solving complex problems through logic and data-driven reasoning and wishes to become independent in every sense of the word.

It is especially crucial to encourage and recruit more women in science to bring new perspectives and dialogues in the field, as well as to redress gender related biases."