Our guest today is Sowmya Purushothaman, a biophysicist & a research fellow at UC Merced in California. She is women in STEM advocate and an advocate for equal education in India. Sowmya graduated with a Ph.D. from Imperial College London and completed a postdoc from Cambridge University. She works with a grassroots level non-profit called the STEM foundation in Banglore, India, to provide education for all.

In this episode we discuss:

1) Sowmya's multidisciplinary research in membrane biophysics & work in the field of Active Matter.

2) Her story of growing up in a civil unrest zone in Chattisgarh, India. 

3) How her childhood shaped her life choices & her advocacy work?

4) Her passion for equal education, science communication and gender advocacy in STEM.

Listen now to Sowmya's inspiring STEM story. 

Links: 

https://www.sowmyapurushothaman.com/about

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sowmya-purushothaman-9a87a780

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