Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey

Historian of Science and Technology | Founding Director | Bengaluru Science Gallery
India

Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey

Historian of Science and Technology | Founding Director | Bengaluru Science Gallery

Jahnavi Phalkey is a filmmaker and historian of science and technology. Formerly at King’s College London, she is now the Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru and Sir Asutosh Mukherjee Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies. She has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2013-14) following which she was on secondment to the Science Museum London as external curator (2013-2015). Jahnavi is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India (2013) and has recently co-edited Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century (2016). She is on the editorial board for the British Journal for the History of Science and History and Technology. She is the director – producer of the documentary film Cyclotron (2020). Jahnavi continues to supervise doctoral candidates at King’s College London.​
Source: https://www.icts.res.in/people/jahnavi-phalkey

Referenced Content

Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth-Century India by Jahnavi Phalkey

Hardcover, 354 pages
Published September 1st 2013 by Permanent Black
ISBN
8178243768

Science of giants: China and India in the twentieth century

Published by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2016

Jahnavi Phalkey and Tong Lam

‘Access to science is what every society needs’: Jahnavi Phalkey

Mohit M Rao, The Hindu
November 06, 2021
By turning Science Gallery Bengaluru into a first-of-its-kind public lab complex, the historian aims to make science a public good, accessible to everyone.