Jahnavi Phalkey

Jahnavi Phalkey is a historian of science and technology, and a filmmaker. She is the Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru which is part of an international network of eight galleries. The 140,000 sq. ft. gallery is among the most ambitious public engagement projects in India and seeks to ‘bring science back into culture’. Previously, Jahnavi held a tenured faculty position at King’s College London. She was Fellow at 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. 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.